Talk:Epimenides

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This entry contains the sentence: "The fourth line is quoted without attribution in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 17, verse 28, which also quotes the Hymn to Zeus of the poet Cleanthes."

Compare with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aratus and cross-compare with http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=ACTS%2B17%3A28&showfn=on&showxref=on&language=english&version=HCSB&x=10&y=9.

According to these sources (respectively):

"He [Aratus] even earned a quotation in the New Testament, where, in Acts, 17.28, Saint Paul, speaking of God, quotes Aratus' line "For we are indeed his offspring."

"17:28 This citation is from Aratus, a third-century B.C. Gk poet."

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Confusion has been cleared away and noted in the entry. Cleanthes's fourth line is very much like Epimenides's which constitutes the reference in the first half of Acts 17:28; the second half beginning with "As some of your own poets have said," refers to the fifth line from Aratus's Phaenomena.

(1) This is interesting, but since "For we are indeed his offspring" isn't a quotation of Epimenides, I don't know that it has a place in this article. (2) The article Epistle to Titus quotes Easton's Bible Dictionary as saying the authorship of the epistle is uncertain, so I don't know that we want to attribute it to Paul here. Comments? Wile E. Heresiarch 22:23, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I've reverted the recent changes. See edit comments in the page history. Wile E. Heresiarch 21:46, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)