From Nave’s Topical Bible
Mercurius
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 2Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (A pagan god; Mercury (to the Romans); Hermes (to the Greeks))
- Paul taken for, in LycaoniaActs 14:11Acts 14:12
The passages, in Bible order (2)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Acts 14:11
When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in human form!”
Commentary on Acts 14:112 voices
The gods are come down - Which the heathens supposed they frequently did; But how amazingly does the prince of darkness blind the minds of them that believe not! The Jews would not own Christ's Godhead, though they saw him work numberless miracles.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755Evangelical
"And the people, having seen what Paul had done." Notice, on the one hand, the simple-heartedness of the pagans, and on the other, the craftiness of the Jews. The former honored the apostles as gods, while the latter persecuted them as destroyers of order.
Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on Acts, 1107Patristic
- Acts 14:12
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
Commentary on Acts 14:122 voices
They called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius - The heathens supposed that Jupiter and Mercury were the gods who most frequently assumed the human form; and Jupiter was accustomed to take Mercury with him on such expeditions. Jupiter was the supreme god of the heathens; and Mercury was by them considered the god of eloquence. And the ancient fable, from which I have quoted so largely above, represents Jupiter and Mercury coming to this very region, where they were entertained by Lycaon, from whom the Lycaonians derived their name. See the whole fable in the first book of Ovids Metamorphoses.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
After he had spoken with me he rose up from the couch, and taking the Shepherd and the virgins, he departed. But he said to me that he would send back the Shepherd and the virgins to my dwelling. Amen.
Shepherd of Hermas· Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10, 160Patristic