Catholic Public Domain Version
"so as to seek God, if perhaps they may consider him or find him, though he is not far from each one of us. "
— Acts 17:27, Catholic Public Domain Version
“That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:”
“that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us: ”
“that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”
“so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”
“That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us.”
“So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:”
“That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:”
the God who made the world and all that is in it, the One who is the Lord of heaven and earth, who does not live in temples made with hands.
Neither is he served by the hands of men, as if in need of anything, since it is he who gives to all things life and breath and all else.
And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation,
so as to seek God, if perhaps they may consider him or find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
‘For in him we live, and move, and exist.’ Just as some of your own poets have said. ‘For we are also of his family.’
Therefore, since we are of the family of God, we must not consider gold or silver or precious stones, or the engravings of art and of the imagination of man, to be a representation of what is Divine.
And indeed, God, having looked down to see the ignorance of these times, has now announced to men that everyone everywhere should do penance.