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Colossians 3:11 Scythians
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You know what I expect to be some cultural influence?

For the Greek, Scythians were synonous with 'foreigners'. It's even a fact, that at the eastern Roman border, the parthians and scythians kept the Romans at distance behind the Eufrates river.

Since jews themselves lived among Scyths and Greeks, (Acts 2:6-9) and they seemed to have spoken there language as wel, the wording for jews-barbarians (foreigners) is well chosen.

So, for a jew, a scyth was much less of a 'barbarian' than for a native Greek.
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Colossians 3:11 Scythians - by distazo - 01-03-2010, 04:58 PM
Re: Colossians 3:11 Scythians - by Aaron S - 01-03-2010, 08:56 PM
Re: Colossians 3:11 Scythians - by abudar2000 - 01-04-2010, 11:18 AM
Re: Colossians 3:11 Scythians - by distazo - 01-05-2010, 07:43 AM

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