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Although he was an innovator , the attitude of the Apostle of the Gentiles towards the achievements of Greek civilization was one of respect and he didn’t hesitate to see them as part of God’s providence and to incorporate them into the Biblical tradition. “‘For in him we live and move and have our being”. As some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring’” (v. 28). A clear reference to Aratos (Phenomena, 5). At the time when Saint Paul dared to express the Christian message in the capital of the ancient spiritual world, the Greek world- as many thinkers have observed- had made astonishing strides in terms of spiritual development, through the wonderful deployment of reason as the ...