Dict: smith - GREECE, GREEKS, GRECIANS

smith:

GREECE, GREEKS, GRECIANS - G>@ - The histories of Greece and Palestine are little connected with each other. In kjv@Genesis: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 the similarity of sound between Javan and Iones. Accordingly the Old Testament word which is Grecia , in Authorized Versions Greece, Greeks , etc., is in Javan kjv@Daniel:8:21; kjv@Joel:3:6) the Hebrew, however, is sometimes regained. kjv@Isaiah:66:19; Ezekiel:27;13) The Greeks and Hebrews met for the first time in the slave-market. The medium of communication seems to have been the Tyrian slave-merchants. About B.C. 800 Joel speaks of the Tyrians as, selling the children of Judah tot he Grecians, kjv@Joel:3:6) and in kjv@Ezekiel:27:13 The Greeks are mentioned as bartering their brazen vessels for slaves. Prophetical notice of Greece occurs in kjv@Daniel:8:21) etc., where the history of Alexander and his successors is rapidly sketched. Zechariah, kjv@Zechariah:9:13) foretells the triumphs of the Maccabees against the Greco
- Syrian empire, while Isaiah looks forward to the conversion of the Greeks, amongst other Gentiles, through the instrumentality of Jewish missionaries. kjv@Isaiah:66:19) The name of the country, Greece occurs once in the New Testament, kjv@Acts:20:2) as opposed to Macedonia. GENTILES