Mars Hill, from and of

Here I'm standing on Mars Hill, just beneath the Acropolis and above the sprawling city of Athens.  It is on Mars Hill (see Acts 17) where Paul spoke to the philosophers about the plethora of altars in the city and the character of the one true God.  Atop the Acropolis in the Parthenon stood an immense statue of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare.  Seeing how near at hand that temple of worship was when Paul spoke gives a new sense of urgency when he says, "The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything" (17:24-25).