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Acts 14:12

Context
14:12 They began to call 1  Barnabas Zeus 2  and Paul Hermes, 3  because he was the chief speaker.

1 tn The imperfect verb ἐκάλουν (ekaloun) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.

2 sn Zeus was the chief Greek deity, worshiped throughout the Greco-Roman world (known to the Romans as Jupiter).

3 sn Hermes was a Greek god who (according to Greek mythology) was the messenger of the gods and the god of oratory (equivalent to the Roman god Mercury).



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