20for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;`
21and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.
22And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;
23for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.
24`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,
25neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;
26He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --
