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CHAPTER II<br />

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES<br />

Terms <strong>of</strong> more General Significance.<br />

("E(9i/os about fopty-four times in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Acts</strong>),<br />

Most frequently as rot eOvrj meaning <strong>the</strong> Gentile nations,<br />

i.e. those who were not Jews (LXX) ; so also in xxi.<br />

11;^ more rarely in a quite neutral sense, as in ii. 5 :<br />

airo iravTOS eOvovi rcov viro tov ovpavov, x. 35, xvii. 26 :<br />

TTCti/ eOi^os avOpcoTTcov, viii. 9 : to eOyog r?? ^ajmapla^,<br />

xiii. 19, &c. In <strong>the</strong> former signification it has been<br />

already so affected by <strong>the</strong> Judaeo-Hellenic use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

word, that <strong>the</strong> Gentile inhabitants <strong>of</strong> a city are called<br />

TO. eOvt] (xiii. 48, xiv. 2); xv. 23: aSeXcpoi^ roig e^<br />

iOvcov, xxi. 25 : Trepl tcoi^ ireina-TevKOTWv eOvcov = " <strong>the</strong><br />

Gentile Christians." It is placed in contrast with its<br />

anti<strong>the</strong>sis (<strong>the</strong> Jewish nation) in iv. 27 (cvv eOvecriv koi<br />

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