For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
the living and true God: Idols are both false and lifeless, but the God whom we serve is genuine, alive, and active in the affairs of His children. The One Whom we serve is identified as the true God "in opposition to the whole system of idolatry, which was false in the objects of its adoration, false in it pretensions, false in its promises, and false in all its prospects" (Clarke, Vol. VI 541).