Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 17:28

28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his off-spring.

He is the God that made us, that preserve[illegible: 1 letter] us, and not we our selves; he keeps us as in the hollow of his hand, and compasseth our paths. Our breath is in our Nostrils, and when we send it forth, we have none to take in again, unless God furnish us with it, as out of his own hand.

Aratus a Greek Poet; not that St. Paul thought to derive any Authority from these Poets, unto what he had said; but that he might shame them the more by the Testimony of their allowed Authors. Such Quotations as these are (as the bringing in of a Greek into the Temple) very rare; yet besides this, we meet with the like, 1 Cor. 15.33. Titus 1.12.