Acts 14:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There were two main objections which these heathen idolaters might make against the gospel, and the worship of the true God: and they are, first, from the antiquity, secondly, from the universality, of that false worship; both which the apostle here gives a critical answer unto, telling them, that the reason why so many, and for so long a time had followed idols, was from the just judgment of God upon them, as Psalms 81:12 Romans 1:24,28. Their own ways; ways of our choosing, and not of God's commanding, are false ways.