Acts 17:29–31

17:29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity101 is like gold or silver or stone, an image102 made by human103 skill104 and imagination.105 17:30 Therefore, although God has overlooked106 such times of ignorance,107 he now commands all people108 everywhere to repent,109 17:31 because he has set110 a day on which he is going to judge the world111 in righteousness, by a man whom he designated,112 having provided proof to everyone by raising113 him from the dead.”

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101	tn Or “the divine being.” BDAG 446 s.v. θεῖος 1.b has “divine being, divinity” here.
102	tn Or “a likeness.” Again idolatry is directly attacked as an affront to God and a devaluation of him.
103	tn Grk “by the skill and imagination of man,” but ἀνθρώπου (anthrōpou) has been translated as an attributive genitive.
104	tn Or “craftsmanship” (cf. BDAG 1001 s.v. τέχνη).
105	tn Or “thought.” BDAG 336 s.v. ἐνθύμησις has “thought, reflection, idea” as the category of meaning here, but in terms of creativity (as in the context) the imaginative faculty is in view.
106	tn Or “has deliberately paid no attention to.”
107	tn Or “times when people did not know.”
108	tn Here ἀνθρώποις (anthrōpois) has been translated as a generic noun (“people”).
109	sn He now commands all people everywhere to repent. God was now asking all mankind to turn to him. No nation or race was excluded.
110	tn Or “fixed.”
111	sn The world refers to the whole inhabited earth.
112	tn Or “appointed.” BDAG 723 s.v. ὁρίζω 2.b has “of persons appoint, designate, declare: God judges the world ἐν ἀνδρὶ ᾧ ὥρισεν through a man whom he has appointed Ac 17:31.” sn A man whom he designated. Jesus is put in the position of eschatological judge. As judge of the living and the dead, he possesses divine authority (Acts 10:42).
113	tn The participle ἀναστήσας (anastēsas) indicates means here.