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Definition of Proselytes
1. proselyte [v] - See also: proselyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proselytes
Literary usage of Proselytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The proselytes were converts from heathenism to Judaism. ... 34) ; and elsewhere,
where there is no allusion to proselytes in the technical sense of the ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"Hence they admitted proselytes, who renounced the worship of idols, and joined
in the religious services of the Jews ; although they were not held in the ..."
3. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"I x>ve-proselytes, where they were drawn by the hope of gaining the beloved one.
... Lion -proselytes, where the conversion originated in a superstitious ..."
4. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"And for proselytes to Judaism to take the name of Jews, as well as their ...
But here it is to be noted, that there were two sorts of proselytes among the ..."
5. Antiquities of the Jews by William Brown (1826)
"V. Jewish proselytes. 1st, Slaves embracing Judaism without obtaining their ...
2d, proselytes of the gate: the seven precepts of Noah; their conformity to ..."
6. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"And for proselytes to Judaism to take the name of Jews, as well as their ...
But here it is to be noted, that there were two sorts of proselytes among the ..."
7. A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Explanatory of the History ... and by Richard Watson (1856)
"In the New Testament they are called sometimes proselytes, and sometimes ...
The Jews distinguish two kinds of proselytes. The first, proselytes of the gate ..."
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