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| == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16707" /> ==
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| <p> A fabulous god of the ancient heathen, the messenger of the celestials, and the deity that presided over learning, eloquence, and traffic. The [[Greeks]] named him Hermes, interpreter, because they considered him as the interpreter of the will of the gods. [[Probably]] it was for this reason that he people of Lystra, having heard [[Paul]] preach, and having seen him heal a lame man, would have offered sacrifice to him as to their god Mercury; and to [[Barnabas]] as Jupiter, because of his venerable aspect, Acts 14:11-12 . </p>
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| | <p> An interior planet of the Solar system, whose orbit is nearest the sun, the greatest distance being nearly 43,000,000 m. and the least over 28,000,000, is one-seventeenth the size of the earth, but is of greater density, and accomplishes its revolution in about 84 days; it is visible just before the sun rises and after it sets, but that very seldom owing to the sun's neighbourhood. </p> |
| == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42336" /> ==
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| [[Pagan Gods]][[Hermes]]
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| == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52618" /> ==
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| <p> <strong> MERCURY </strong> stands in the AV [Note: [[Authorized]] Version.] for the Gr. <em> [[Hermes]] </em> in Acts 14:12 . Hermes, as the spokesman of the gods, was regarded by the [[Greeks]] as the god of eloquence. Hence, when [[Paul]] and [[Barnabas]] healed the cripple at Lystra, the former was hailed as Hermes, ‘because he was the chief speaker.’ The identification of Hermes with [[Mercury]] was due to another attribute. [[As]] the messenger of the gods, Hermes was the god who brought good fortune to men. Mercury was the [[Roman]] god of commerce (cf. <em> merx, mercari </em> ), and success in commerce was attributed to him. [[Hence]] the mythology of the two was confused. </p> <p> A. E. Hillard. </p> | |
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| == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56530" /> ==
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| <p> ‘Mercury’ (Acts 14:12 [[Revised]] Version; [[Authorized]] Version‘Mercurius,’ Revised [[Version]] margin ‘Gr. <i> [[Hermes]] </i> ’), like ‘Jupiter’ ( <i> q.v. </i> [Note: .v. quod vide, which see.]), is used as the [[Greek]] equivalent of some local [[Lycaonian]] god. Hermes ‘is the name of a Greek god (corresponding to the [[Roman]] Mercury) whose origin and real character are perhaps more difficult to define than is the case with any other Greek deity’ (Ramsay, <i> [[Encyclopaedia]] Britannica </i> 9 xi. [1880] 749). [[He]] was the accredited messenger between gods and men. [[Besides]] this he was the god of social intercourse, and hence came to be regarded as the personification of cleverness; that he should then be regarded as the patron of thieves was but a step. He is also spoken of as conducting the souls of the departed to their last home-an idea inherited from the Vedic mythology. [[Because]] of his connexion with the wind he is generally represented as wearing winged shoes. St. Paul, however, was dubbed ‘Hermes,’ ‘because he was the chief speaker,’ which reminds us that this deity was thought of as the god of eloquence. The statue of the god by [[Praxiteles]] in the Heraion at [[Olympia]] conceived him as possessing peculiar beauty and grace, which accords ill with the traditional portrait of the Apostle. The fact is that the Lycaonians were so wrought upon by the miracle that had been performed, and so delighted at the eloquence of St. Paul, that they did not stop to consider such details. </p> <p> F. W. Worsley. </p>
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| == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73914" /> ==
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| <p> Mer'cury. Acts 14:12. The translation of Mercurius, in the [[Revised]] Version. </p>
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| == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16236" /> ==
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| <p> [HERMES] </p>
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| == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_76753" /> ==
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| <p> The [[Roman]] name for the [[Greek]] Hermes, the son of [[Jupiter]] and Maia, the messenger of the gods, the patron of merchants and travellers, and the conductor of the souls of the dead to the nether world. </p>
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| | | <ref name="term_76754"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/mercury+(2) Mercury from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> |
| <ref name="term_16707"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/mercury Mercury from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |
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| <ref name="term_42336"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/mercury Mercury from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_52618"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/mercury Mercury from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_56530"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/mercury Mercury from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_73914"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/mercury Mercury from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_16236"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/mercury Mercury from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_76753"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/mercury Mercury from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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Mercury [1]
An interior planet of the Solar system, whose orbit is nearest the sun, the greatest distance being nearly 43,000,000 m. and the least over 28,000,000, is one-seventeenth the size of the earth, but is of greater density, and accomplishes its revolution in about 84 days; it is visible just before the sun rises and after it sets, but that very seldom owing to the sun's neighbourhood.
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