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Acts 16:1-318:17Romans 1:14Romans 2:9,10 <p> The word "Grecians" in Acts 11:20 should be "Greeks," denoting the heathen [[Greeks]] of that city, as rendered in the Revised Version according to the reading of the best manuscripts ("Hellenes"). </p>

<p> GREEK, a. Pertaining to Greece. See Gray. </p> <p> GREEK, n. A native of Greece. </p> 1. The language of Greece. <p> Greek-fire, a combustible composition, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. </p>

<p> Ἓλλην. A native of Greece. For their origin, and reference to them in the O.T., see GRECIA and GRECIANS. In the N.T. we read that some came to [[Jerusalem]] to worship and desired to see Jesus; but He was then just about to be offered up. John 12:20-24 . The [[Greeks]] were an intellectual people and naturally sought after wisdom; and [[Christ]] <i> crucified </i> was unto them foolishness. How could they naturally think of having faith in a man crucified with malefactors? But to the called ones Christ became the power and wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 . In Paul's evangelising among them 'great multitudes ' believed, and lost their proud nationality in Christ. Acts 14:1; Acts 17:4; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11 . </p>

<p> a term not found in the A.V. of the O.T., where either [[Javan]] is retained, or, as in Joel 3:6, the word is rendered by Grecian. In [[Maccabees]] [[Greek]] and [[Grecians]] seem to be used indifferently (comp. 1 Maccabees 1:10; 1 Maccabees 6:2; also 2 Maccabees 4:10, Greekish). In the N.T., on the other hand, a distinction is observed, ῞Ελλην being rendered "Greek," and ῾Ελληνιστής,"Grecian." The difference of the English terminations, however, is not sufficient to convey the differsence of meanings. (See Overkamp, [[De]] distinctione inter Judaeos et Graecos, et inter Graec. et barbaros, Gryph. 1782; Amnell, Hellas, N.T. illustrata, Upsal. 1752.) ῞Ελλην, in the N.T. is either a Greek by race, as in Acts 16:1-3; Acts 18:17; Romans 1:14; or more frequently a Gentile, as opposed to a [[Jew]] (Romans 2:9-10, etc.); so fem. ῾Ελληνίς Mark 7:26; Acts 17:12. ῾Ελληνιστής (properly "one who speaks Greek") is a foreign Jew; opposed, therefore, not to Ι᾿ουδαῖος, but to ῾Εβραῖος, a home-Jew, one who dwelt in Palestine. So Schleusner, etc.: according to Salmasius, however, the [[Hellenists]] were Greek proselytes, who had become Christians; so Wolf, Parkhurst, etc., arguing from Acts 11:20, where ῾Ελληνισταί are contrasted with Ι᾿ουδαῖοι in 19. The question resolves itself partly into a textual one, Griesbach having adopted the reading ῞Ελληνας, and so also Lachmann, Tischendorf, and others. (See [[Hellenist]]). </p>

<p> hat section of the [[Church]] which formerly separated from the [[Roman]] or [[Western]] in 1054, which assumed an independent existence on account of the arrogant claims of the latter, and which acknowledges the authority of only the first seven general councils; they dissent from the Filioque [[Doctrine]] ( <i> q. v </i> .), administer the [[Eucharist]] in both kinds to the laity, and are zealously conservative of the orthodoxy of the Church. </p>