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== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70161" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70161" /> == | ||
<p> '''Greeks,''' [[Grecians]] . The "Greeks" were those [[Greeks]] by race, Acts 16:1; Acts 16:3; Acts 18:17 | <p> '''Greeks,''' [[Grecians]] . The "Greeks" were those [[Greeks]] by race, Acts 16:1; Acts 16:3; Acts 18:17 A. V., but the R. V. omits "the Greeks" and reads "they all;" or else [[Gentiles]] as opposed to Jews, Romans 2:9-10, "Gentile" A. V., but the margin of the A. V. and the text of the R. V. read "Greek." But Grecians were foreign [[Jews]] as distinct from those in Palestine, who were called "Hebrews." Acts 11:20. The Greeks and Hebrews first met when the Tyrians sold the Jews to the Greeks. Joel 3:6. "Prophetical notice of [[Greece]] occurs in Daniel 8:21, etc., where the history of [[Alexander]] and his successors is rapidly sketched. Zechariah 9:13 foretells the triumphs of the [[Maccabees]] over the Græco-Syrian empire, while Isaiah looks forward to the conversion of the Greeks, amongst other Gentiles, through the instrumentality of [[Jewish]] missionaries. Isaiah 66:19." </p> | ||
== Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology <ref name="term_17890" /> == | == Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology <ref name="term_17890" /> == | ||
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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35558" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35558" /> == | ||
<p> (See [[Grecians.) | <p> (See [[Grecians]] .) </p> | ||
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