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Who are the Greeks?
        GREEKS or GRECIANS
        These terms should be more distinguished. The "Greeks" were the Greeks by race. Acts 16:1, Acts 16:3; Josh 18:17, or else Gentiles as opposed to Jews. Rom 2:9-10, marg. 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 Dan 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 Graeco-Syrian empire, while Isaiah looks forward to the conversion of the Greeks, amongst other Gentiles, through the instrumentality of Jewish missionaries. Is 66:19."After the complete subjugation of the Greeks by the Romans, and the absorption into the Roman empire of the kingdoms which were formed out of the dominions of Alexander, Sketch-Map of Greece. the political connection between the Greeks and the Jews as two independent nations no longer existed." -- Smith:Dictionary of the Bible.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'greeks' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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