Mercurius

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(A pagan god; Mercury (to the Romans); Hermes (to the Greeks))

Paul taken for, in Lycaonia

• Acts 14:11–12 When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in human form!” Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.