Medieval Scripture Scholar On Acts 17 & “The Unknown God”

This is an interesting and important passage.  Fr. Willem Hessels van Est (who is sometimes called Estius) was a noted Dutch scholastic theologian and Scripture scholar who died in 1613.  Van Est correctly teaches that the pagans in Acts 17 were not worshipping the true God.  He explains that the worship of the true God cannot coexist with the worship of false gods or idols.  Since the pagans in Acts 17 were simultaneously worshipping idols, they did not have faith and thus God could not be the actual object of their worship.  This is one of many interesting passages that are cited in our video that refutes a certain Novus Ordo heretic: Lies, Contradictions & Errors Exposed.  In that video we also pointed out that in this passage Hessels van Est uses the Latin word cultus clearly to include the internal act of worship.  That fact serves to refute another lie and utterly fallacious argument made by the aforementioned Novus Ordo heretic.