Jump to: Hitchcock's • Smith's • ISBE • Easton's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Library • Subtopics • Terms Thesaurus Mercurius (1 Occurrence)... speaker.". Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. MERCURY; MERCURIUS. mur ... ANCIENT. MO Evans. Multi-Version Concordance Mercurius (1 Occurrence). Acts ... /m/mercurius.htm - 8k Mercury (1 Occurrence) Mercilessly (2 Occurrences) Hermes (2 Occurrences) Barnabas (33 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Mercurius (1 Occurrence)Acts 14:12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary MercuriusSmith's Bible Dictionary Mercurius(herald of the gods), properly Hermes, the Greek deity, whom the Romans identified with their Mercury, the god of commerce and bargains. Hermes was the son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Maia the daughter of Atals, and is constantly represented as the companion of his father in his wandering upon earth. The episode of Baucis and Philemon, Ovid, Metam . viii. 620-724, appears to have formed part of the folk-lore of Asia Minor, and strikingly illustrates the readiness with which the simple people of Lystra recognized in Barnabas and Paul the gods who, according to their wont, had come down in the likeness of men. (Acts 14:11) Easton's Bible Dictionary The Hermes (i.e., "the speaker") of the Greeks (Acts 14:12), a heathen God represented as the constant attendant of Jupiter, and the god of eloquence. The inhabitants of Lystra took Paul for this god because he was the "chief speaker." International Standard Bible Encyclopedia MERCURY; MERCURIUSmur'-ku-ri, mer-ku'ri-us: The translation of Hermes, in Acts 14:12: "They called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker." Hermes was the god of eloquence (and also of theft), the attendant, messenger and spokesman of the gods. The more commanding presence of Barnabas (compare 2 Corinthians 10:10) probably caused him to be identified with Zeus (the Roman Jupiter), while his gift of eloquence suggested the identification of Paul with Hermes (the Roman Mercury). The temple of Jupiter was before Lystra, and to him the Lycaonians paid their chief worship. Compare the legend of Baucis and Philemon (Ovid, Metam. viii.611). Library Of Æsculapius, Apollo, Mars, Castor and Pollux, and of Mercurius ... Acts xiii. 42 List of Illustrations. Index. Strange Account of the Origin of Matter, from the Various ... Argument: the Object of all Nations, and Especially of the Romans ... The Judicial Retribution of These Migrations Refuted with Raillery ... Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on ... Deified and Stoned The Actions of Saturnus and Uranus Taken from the Historians. Subtopics Mercurius: Paul Taken For, in Lycaonia Related Terms Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |