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" This word describes not her country, but her religion : She was an idolatress, bred in the principles of that gross idolatry which consisted in the worship of the images of dead men. And because idolatry in this worst form obtained more among the Greeks... "
A Greek and English lexicon to the New Testament. To this is prefixed a ... - Page 175
by John Parkhurst - 1845
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Sermons [ed. by H. Horsley].

Samuel Horsley (bp. of St. Asaph.) - 1816 - 394 pages
...for she was not only " a Syrophcenician by nation," she w.as besides " a Greek." She was a " Greek." This word describes not her country, but her religion...were by the Jews of the apostolic age called Greeks ; just as, among us, any one who lives in the communion of the Roman church, though he be a Frenchman...
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Sermons, Volume 2

Samuel Horsley - Sermons, English - 1824 - 492 pages
...for she was not only " a Syrophcenician by nation," she was besides <; a Greek." She was a " Greek." This word describes not her country, but her religion...were by the Jews of the apostolic age called Greeks; just as, among us, any one who lives in the communion of the Roman church, though he be a Frenchman...
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Sermons

Samuel Horsley - Bible - 1827 - 596 pages
...she was not only '' a Syrophcenician by nation"—she was besides " a Greek." She was a " Greek." The word describes not her country, but ' her religion:...they might be, were by the Jews of the apostolic age I called Greeks; just as, among us, any one who lives in j the communion of the Roman church, though...
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SERMONS

SAMUEL HORSLEY - 1829 - 470 pages
...for she was not only " a Syrophoenician by nation," she was besides " a Greek." She was a " Greek." This word describes not her country, but her religion...were by the Jews of the apostolic age called Greeks ; just as, among us, any one who lives in the communion of the Roman church, though he be a 135 Frenchman...
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The Gospel miracles; in a series of poetical sketches: with illustrative ...

Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1832 - 280 pages
...the civilized part of mankind, except themselves, were Greeks. " The word," says Bishop Horsley, " describes, not her country, but her religion. She...whatever country they might be, were by the Jews of that age called Greeks." F. Would you name any object of Phenician worship ? A. One was Tammuz, supposed...
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The Church Magazine, Volume 5

Great Britain - 1843 - 600 pages
...Israelites, when they settled in Palestine, were commissioned to destroy ; " and that the word " Greek" " describes not her country, but her religion : she...consisted in the worship of the images of dead men." Sermon xxxvii. p. 448.) This woman then "was converted at once without proselytism, from gross Pagan...
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The miracles of Christ

Jesus Christ - 1843 - 224 pages
...allusion is made to a husband. It is commonly thought that she had been bred in the principles of that idolatry which consisted in the worship of the images of dead men. She may have bowed down to Tammuz, the idol of her native land, Ezek. viii. 14; or • " The old inhabitants...
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The Miracles of Christ: With Explanatory Observations, and Illustrations ...

Daniel Parish Kidder - 1847 - 278 pages
...Barbarians. Rom. i, 14 ; Col. iii, 11. commonly thought that she had been bred in the principles of that idolatry which consisted in the worship of the images of dead men. She may have bowed down to Tammuz, the idol of her native land, Ezek. viii, 14 ; or paid her vows to...
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The Sunday Library: Or, The Protestant's Manual for the Sabbath ..., Volume 3

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Sermons, English - 1850 - 350 pages
...for she was not only " a Syrophcenician by nation," she was besides " a Greek." She was a " Greek." This word describes not her country, but her religion:...were by the Jews of the apostolic age called Greeks ; just as, among us, any one who lives in the communion of the Roman church, though he be a Frenchman...
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Sermons Selected from Various Sources and Arranged for Domestic Use

Sermons - 1851 - 272 pages
...families ; for she was not only a Syrophenician by nation, she was besides a Greek. She was a Greek . This word describes not her country, but her religion....of whatever country they might be, were by the Jews called Greeks ; just as, among us, any one who lives in the communion of the Roman Church, though he...
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