Exegetically Speaking

Groping About for God Like a Blind Cyclops, with Steven Jones: Acts 17:27


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In his lecture to philosophers in Acts 17, Paul declares that God has so ordered human history that people "would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us" (NIV). The verb translated "reach out for" (ψηλαφάω) can be illuminated by the blinded Cyclops in Homer's Odyssey or by the biblical Isaac trying to identify which of his sons was talking to him. Dr. Jones is the Teaching & Training Pastor at Kingsland Baptist Church, Katy, TX, a Greek instructor at Lanier Theological Library (which sponsors this podcast along with Wheaton College), and is currently teaching Greek, Latin, and Medical Terminology at Rice University.

Check out related programs at Wheaton College:

B.A. in Classical Languages (Greek, Latin, Hebrew): https://bit.ly/3I3fUVG

M.A. in Biblical Exegesis: https://bit.ly/3OMWS9X

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