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Feb 3, 2020 · So you're right if you're implying that his words don't mean 'countries' as we understand them now, and this isn't just talking about 'foreign missions'. The word translated 'nations', ethne, has at least two overtones here. It means 'people groups', who might speak the same language, follow the same religion or live in the same area.
- Matthew 10
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- Matthew 10
The English word "nations" is used in the New International Version to translate several Hebrew terms. Most often it refers to goyim, a word thought to derive from gowy [y/G], which means "body" of a person and thus by extension, the corporate body of a people. The writers of the Hebrew Bible applied the term "nations" to various peoples, but ...
Jun 23, 2021 · Only human individuals have such organs, bodies, and minds. At the last day, Jesus said in Matthew 25:32–33, “all the nations” [panta ta ethne) will be gathered before him as he sits on his glorious throne. But he will not separate nation from nation. He will separate sheep and goats among the nations.
Feb 18, 2021 · The Nations in the Bible. By Timothy W. Whitaker on February 18, 2021. read. 17 min. One of the main themes of the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments is the nations, a subject that remains largely in the background in the Old Testament but emerges into the foreground in the New Testament. The Old Testament.
Matthew 25:32-33. Before him shall be gathered all nations — That is, all the individuals of all nations and ages; not only all that are found alive at the time of his appearing, and are changed in a moment, and rendered immortal, that they may be capable of enjoying eternal happiness, or of suffering everlasting misery, but all that had ever lived from the beginning to the end of time.
Apr 18, 2017 · Christopher J. H. Wright observes, The nations of humanity preoccupy the biblical narrative from beginning to end. . . . The obvious reason for this is that the Bible is, of course, preoccupied with the relationship between God and humanity, and humanity exists in nations. And where the Bible focuses especially on the people of God, that people ...
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Nations. NATIONS. Such similar terms found in the Eng. Bible as “Gentiles,” “heathen,” “nations,” “pagans,” and “people” may more efficiently be considered together in one lengthy article. The term which usually is the most accurate tr. of the pl. of several Heb. and Gr. words is “nations” (478 times in KJV, far more ...
