the imperial cult as one of the ways of affirming their loyalty to the empire. Paul’s affirmations about the activity of God in creation and his providence in the Athenian speech were clearly taught in the OT. For example, Isaiah 40:12, states that this God is ‘the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth’. It is he who ‘has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the
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