From his letters we learn that he spent some time alone in Athens, sending Timothy back to Thessalonica to see how the community was faring. Luke’s account of Paul’s visit has become famous. He describes Paul preaching before the Council of the Areopagus like a Greek philosopher, arguing from the evidence of natural reason for the existence of a God, praised by Greek poets as “not far from each one of us, for in him we live and move, in him we exist.”49 Paul had little time for Greek wisdom, however, and it is more likely that Luke was describing what he himself would have said had he had the
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