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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And hath determined the times appointed, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after Him and find Him." It means either this, that He did not compel them to go about and seek God, but according to the bounds of their habitation: or this, that He determined their seeking God, yet not determined this to be done continually, but determined certain appointed times when they should do so: showing now, that not having sought they had found: for since, having sought, they had not found, he …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Paul shows that, even without having found the Lord, they obtained Him. And since, in seeking Him, they did not find Him, he also shows that the Lord is as evident as some object examined in a conspicuous place, because it is impossible for heaven to be here but not be in another place; it is also impossible for it to exist at this time but not at another. Thus, at every time and in every place one can find the Lord. God so arranged things that we encounter no obstacle in this either from the side of place or from the side of time. …
Oecumenius
And this is what he says, "though he is not far from each one of us." For he is near to all as being everywhere in the inhabited world; and he is so near that without him one cannot live. [CHRYSOSTOM]
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"He is not far from every one of us," as the apostle says, who adds, "For in Him we live, and are moved, and have our being." And if this were said in respect to the body, it might be understood even of this corporeal world; for in it too in respect to the body, we live, and are moved, and have our being. And therefore it ought to be taken in a more excellent way, and one that is spiritual, not visible, in respect to the mind, which is made after His image. …
Bonaventure
Few indeed are those who know that they attain those reasons: indeed, what is more, few are those who are willing to believe this, because it seems difficult to an intellect not yet elevated to contemplate eternal things that it should have God so present and so near, even though Paul says in Acts, chapter seventeen, *that He is not far from each one of us.*
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