Acts 14:15 - Exposition

Bring you good tidings for preach unto you, A.V.; vain things for vanities, A.V.; who for which, A.V.; the heaven and the earth for heaven and earth, A.V. ; that in them is for things that are therein, A.V. For the declaration, We also are men of like passions with you , compare Peter's saying to Cornelius ( Acts 10:26 ), "Stand up; I myself also am a man." St. Paul finely contrasts the utter vanity, i.e. the impotence, lifelessness, uselessness, and unprofitableness of the idols, with the power of the living God, who by his word created heaven and earth and sea, and filled them all with beauty, shape, and life.