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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"God," he says, "that made the world." He uttered one word, by which he has subverted all the doctrines of the philosophers. For the Epicureans affirm all to be fortuitously formed and by concourse of atoms, the Stoics held it to be body and fire. "The world and all that is therein." Do you mark the conciseness, and in conciseness, clearness? Mark what were the things that were strange to them: that God made the world! …
Theophylact of Ohrid
"God, who made the world and everything in it." He said one word and undermined all the positions of the philosophers. The Epicureans assert that everything came about by itself and from atoms, but he says that the world and everything in it is the work of God. "He does not dwell in temples made with hands, nor is He served by human hands." So that they would not think that one of their many gods was being preached, Paul adds to what was said: "He does not dwell in temples made with hands," but in the human soul. So then what? …
Oecumenius
For fear that they should think that God proclaimed by him was one of the common gods, he adds in correction: "He does not dwell in hand-made temples." For indeed he dwells in temples, but not in these, rather in the human soul. For he is not said to dwell in the temple of Jerusalem, but to operate there. Nor was he worshiped among the Jews by the hands of men, but with the mind: for he did not so desire those things as if he were in need. For he says, "Shall I eat the flesh of bulls? Or shall I drink the blood of goats?" (Ps. …
Western Saints
Bede
God, who made the world and everything in it, being the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands, and so on. The order of the apostolic discourse is to be carefully observed, in which he formed a way of dealing with the Gentiles: first teaching that there is one God, the author of the world and of all things, in whom we live and move and have our being, of whom we are the offspring. This shows that he ought to be loved not only for the gifts of light and life but also because of a certain kinship of race. …
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