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PAUL AT BEREA AND ATHENS . 95 God,blessedwithintellectualpoweranda perfect andsymmetricalbody. The heavensarenotlarge enough to contain God ; how much less could thosetemplesmade withhandscontainhim. Paul, under the inspirationof hissubject,soaredabove thecomprehensionof the idolatrousassembly,and soughtto draw theirminds beyond thelimitsof theirfalsereligiontocorrectviewsof thetrueDeity,whom theyhad styledthe" Unknown God ." This Being,whom he now declaredunto them, was independentof man , needing nothingfrom human handstoadd tohispower and glory. The peoplewere carriedaway with admiration of Paul'seloquence. The Epicureansbegan to breathemorefreely,believingthathewasstrengtheningtheirposition,thateverythinghad itsorigin in blindchance; and thatcertainrulingprinciples controlledthe universe. But his next sentencebrought a cloudto theirbrows. He asserted the creativepower of God , and the existenceof hisoverrulingprovidence. He declareduntothem the trueGod ,who isthe livingcenterof government . ThisdivineRulerħad,inthedarkagesofthe world, passedlightlyoverheathenidolatry; but now he had sentthem the lightof truth,through hisSon ; and he exacted from allmen repentance unto salvation; notonlyfromthe poor and humble, but from the proud philosopher, and the princesof the earth. " Because He hath appointeda day, in the which he willjudge the worldinrighteousnessby thatMan whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath givenassuranceunto allmen ,in thathe hath raisedhim from the dead." As Paul thusspokeof theresurrectionfromthe dead,hisspeechwas interrupted. Some mocked;