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From:
A Dictionary of Biblical Words and Phrases
By:
Alfred Taylor Schofield
In Scripture this means a heathen who embraced Judaism (
Matt. 23:15
15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. (Matthew 23:15)
;
Acts 2:10; 6:5; 13
10
Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, (Acts 2:10)
5
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: (Acts 6:5)
5
And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister. (Acts 13:5)
).The zeal of the Jews in making proselytes was so remarkable as to become almost proverbial amongst the Romans. Hence “proselytizing” has come to mean a zeal for a
cause
rather than for
Christ,
and we must carefully guard against this ever present danger.
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