Hath made of one blood:
1. To teach all charity and compassion towards one another, being so nearly allied to one another.
2. As also to admire God more in that variety that appears in men's shapes and voices, but especially in the dispositions of their minds; whenas they all come from one stock and stem. Hath determined the times. &c.: the apostle asserts the providence of God against these Athenian philosophers, that nothing comes by chance, or a fatuitous concourse of atoms; but that God is in every thing, though men know it not, or rather will not consider it, Job 7:1, Job 14:5,14. This doctrine was preached by Moses, who tells the people, that God is their life, and the length of their days, that they might love him, and obey his voice, and cleave unto him, Deuteronomy 30:20.