What Does Acts 17:24 Mean in the King James?
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The one who made everything is not housed by anything human hands can make.
THE MEANING
The world around you, including every place people set apart as sacred, belongs to the work of its Maker. No human-built space contains the one who gives all things their being.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
God is present only inside a designated religious building, and human hands can build a home large enough to contain him.
THE ROOT
ποιήσας
poiēsas
GROWS FROM
ποιέω
poieō: to make, do, or bring about.
The Greek verb behind “made” also appears inside χειροποίητος (cheiropoiētos), “made by hand,” describing the temples. The same making that brings the world into being also names the human craft of building a temple: the Maker of all things is not one more thing made by hands.
ALSO GROWS
poiētēs: maker, doer
ποιητής
The maker-word shares this root, keeping the focus on the one who acts and brings things about.
poiēma: a thing made, a work
ποίημα
This branch names what results from making; even a human-built temple belongs among the works, not alongside their Maker.
THE PATTERN
The one who makes heaven and earth is not contained by a sacred structure human hands build.
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,THE THREAD
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.John uses the same Greek root, ποιέω (poieō), for “made.” Acts shows that the maker of all things is not housed by a temple made by human hands; John makes clear that nothing made stands outside that making.
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