Apostol § 40

In those days, while Paul waited for Silas and Timothy at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he saw that the city was given over to idolatry. Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout worshipers, and in the market daily with those who happened to be there. Then certain Epicúrean and Stóic philosophers encountered him and some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to proclaim strange gods,” because he preached unto them Jesus and the Resurrection… And they took him and brought him to the Areópagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? For you bring some strange things to our ears, and we would [want] to know what these things mean.” For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areópagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your devotions, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him declare I unto you: God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Neither is He worshipped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, and breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might feel Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being… as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, something graven by art and man’s devising. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” So Paul departed from among them. However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionýsius the Areópagite, a woman named Dámaris, and others with them.