Greece
gres, gre'-sha;
1. Name:
In the earliest times there was no single name universally
and exclusively in use either of the people or of the land
of Greece. In Homer, three appellations, (Achaioi),
(Danaoi), (Argeioi), were with no apparent discrimination
applied to all the Greeks. By the Orientals they were called
Ionians. See JAVAN. The ...
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Inhabitants of
Called "Gentiles" (non-Jews)
Mr 7:26; Joh 7:35; Ro 2:10; 3:9; 1Co 10:32; 12:13
Desire to see Jesus
Joh 12:20-23
Marry among the Jews
Ac 16:1
Accept the Messiah
Ac 17:2-4,12,34
Persecute the early Christians
Ac 6:9-14; 9:29; 18:17
-Gentiles called "Greeks,"
Ro 10:12; Ga 3:28; Col 3:11
-Schools of philosophy in Athens
Ac ...
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The histories of Greece and Israel are little connected
with each other. In Ge 10:2-5 Moses mentions the descendants
of Javan as peopling the isles of the Gentiles; and when the
Hebrews came into contact with the Ionians of Asia Minor,
and recognized them as the long-lost islanders of the
western migration, it was natural that they should mark...
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orginally consisted of the four provinces of Macedonia,
Epirus,
Achaia, and Peleponnesus. In Acts 20:2 it designates
only the
Roman province of Macedonia. Greece was conquered by
the Romans
B.C. 146. After passing through various changes it
was erected
into an independent monarchy in 1831.
Moses makes mention of Greece under the name of
J...
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Called "Javan" Genesis 10:2. The Ionia on the W. of Asia
Minor, whence perhaps emigrants originally passed to Attica
and the Peloponnese. The Ionians of secular history however
were a colony from Attica. Being the most eastern of the
Greeks they were the first known to the Asiatics. Joel (Joel
3:6) mentions the Grecians as the purchasers to wh...
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When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece,
and made thee as the sword of a mighty man....
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And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much
exhortation, he came into Greece,...
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