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THE DICTIONARY — Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

the Hermes (i.e., “the speaker”) of the Greeks (Acts 14: 12), a heathen God represented as the constant attendant of Jupiter, and the God of eloquence. The inhabitants of Lystra took Paul for this God because he was the “chief speaker.”

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