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Numbers 21:27
That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
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Acts 17:28
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

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Epimenides of Knossos
Cretan poet-prophet whose line "Cretans are always liars" Paul quotes at Titus 1:12 ("a prophet of their own"), and whose altar tradition stands behind Acts 17:23's unknown god.

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Wisdom
Wisdom in Scripture (Hebrew *hokmah*, H2451) is skilled living before God, not accumulated information. Its first appearances are not proverbs but craftsmen: the wise-hearted…

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Paul and the Poets
Paul's pagan-poet quotations (three occasions, four lines: Epimenides quoted twice (Acts 17:28a; Titus 1:12), Aratus at Mars Hill (Acts 17:28b), Menander in Corinth (1 Cor 15:33)) the kretizein…

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Commodian
Commodian wrote Christian poetry in Latin for people who were never going to read a theologian. Two works survive. The *Instructions* is a set of eighty short poems, each one…

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G4163ποιητής poiētḗs — a performer H1864דָּרוֹם dârôwm — the south H5031נְבִיאָה nᵉbîyʼâh — a prophetess or (generally) inspired woman G4396προφήτης prophḗtēs — a foreteller ("prophet")

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