 | Richard Henry Smith - Christian art and symbolism - 1860 - 138 pages
...saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter ; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city,... | |
 | Thornley Smith - 1861 - 244 pages
...cripple from the womb, when the people, seeing what was done, cried out in their provincial dialect, " the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men," and " they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker." f It was a common opinion among both Greeks and Komans,... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1861 - 172 pages
...saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying, in the speech of Lycaonia: The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter ; and Paul, Mercurius2, because he was the chief speaker " (Acts xiv. 11, 12). From Homer wo learn that this was... | |
 | Great birthday - 1862 - 168 pages
...saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter ; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker." (Acts, xiv. 11, 12.) Then turn over a couple of leaves... | |
 | John Eadie - 1862 - 878 pages
...saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying In the speech of Lycaonio, The gods are # Jnplter, and Paul, Merconns, because be was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was... | |
 | Henry Saxelby Melville Wintle - 1863 - 134 pages
...unknown, it tells us that the people in the language of the she-wolf (Lycaonia) said, " The Gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercurius, becausehe was the chief speaker ." J Paul, we have seen, was on friendly terms with some... | |
 | 1864 - 780 pages
...seeing what Paul had 11 done, lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barna- 12 bas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. And the priest of Jupi-... | |
 | Science - 1922 - 378 pages
...saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas Jupiter, and Paul Mercurius." For the story of Philemon and Baucis see Ovid's Metamorphoses, viii, 11. 611-724; trans,... | |
 | 1906 - 530 pages
...especially about the deities they worshiped. Mistaking Paul and Barnabas for such, they cried out, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men." They believed that this sometimes happened. They gave new names to the apostles, names of heathen divinities.... | |
 | G. C. Berkouwer - Religion - 1976 - 444 pages
...Theol., 1938, p. 41. 75. Cf. the striking misunderstanding at the healing in l.ystra (Acts 14: 8-18): "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!" The apostles reply not only by tearing their garments, but also by a new proclamation, which is intended... | |
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And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men. 
