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Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
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gypt, came lawsand letters, and with them the forms of idol-atrous worship into which the learned priest-hood had perverted the monotheism of Noah.During the period of mingled legend andhistory, Greece seems to have begun to exer-cise a foreign influence, and exchanged mo-narchicalforrepublicanforms of government.But the period of its great leading positionas a political power extends from B.C. 776 toB.C. 300—from the beginning of its real his-tory to the end of that generation of menwhich accompanied Alexander to the Per-sian war. It is to this period that the great-er number of references to Greece in theHebrew prophets refer. The influence ofGreece upon the propagation of the Gospelwas of the most important kind; but, in itspreparation of the human mind for the Gos-pel, that influence was rather indirect thandirect. Neither the idolatrous yet beautifulsystem of Greek mythology, nor its philoso- 1 Isa. lxvi., 19; Ezek. xxvii., 13 ; Dan. viii., 5, 21;Joel iil., 6. GREECE 404 GREECE
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22 Lonqitadt 13 Haft frcm Vt fwrvemvieh Map of Ancient Greece. phy, created a disposition to receive the doc-trines of the Gospel. The preaching of theCross was to the Greeks foolishness, as it wasto the Jews a stumbling-block.1 But in anindirect way the influence of Greece uponthe world produced results of the most im-portant kind on the success of the Gospel.The progress of her arms, the diffusion ofher colonies, the power of her literature,combined to stamp Grecian intellect and theGrecian language upon the human race. Bymeans of the first two she diffused throughthe world a language of uneqnaled power,and a literature which has to this day charm-ed the imagination and exercised the intel-lect of the most cultivated nations of theearth. With greater truth than can bo said1 1 Cur. i., U. of any other language, ancient or modern, itmay be said of the Greek in the days of theapostles that it was a universal language.From the Adriatic to the Euphrates audthe Nile, men spoke and thought

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