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En daksi reh denizaksoulou...



What does Digannis mean?

I need to learn some Greek! I met a GC who spoke a few words of Turkish to me recently, felt really bad for not being able to say anything back in her language...

I bet she had lovely brown eyes.

It means 'nasilsin? How are you[doing]?

[Piratis]

Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

GR, in your opening speech, erm sorry, opening para, you quote, "Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

Am I to understand that the people who spoke to Greeks in Antioch did not consider themselves Greek?

Sorry for 'shit stirring', I had no intention of hi-jacking your thread, but I could not proceed with reading at that point.

Good observation! The book of Acts is the 5th in the New Testament and dated between 60AD and 100AD, where we can see that the Bible clearly differentiates Cypriots with Greeks!

That is because not all "men from Cyprus" were Greeks. Just like now, back then Cyprus had minorities. A large minority at that time were the Jews, and it is about them that the above refers to. (Barnabas was a Jewish Cypriot)

Most Jews were expelled from Cyprus by the Roman Emperor Trajan after their rebellion against the Romans in 115–117.

[Piratis]

1. Cyprus is the birth place of European civilization, with ancient Choirokoitia dating back to 7000 BC:

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/ ... oitia.html

A prehistoric settlement of a few 100s people is not exactly a "Civilization". Furthermore such prehistoric settlements exist in many places in Europe, many of which are far older than Choirokoitia.

2. Cyprus is the birth place of what is today called the “Greek” alphabet:

http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/3208.html

…that evolved from one of the most ancient scripts in the world…

http://www.ancientscripts.com/cypriot.html

It is called the Greek Alphabet because it was created to write the Greek language, the language of the Cypriot people. This is why the link you gave refers to "ancient Greeks of Cyprus".

[denizaksulu]

Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

GR, in your opening speech, erm sorry, opening para, you quote, "Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

Am I to understand that the people who spoke to Greeks in Antioch did not consider themselves Greek?

Sorry for 'shit stirring', I had no intention of hi-jacking your thread, but I could not proceed with reading at that point.

Good observation! The book of Acts is the 5th in the New Testament and dated between 60AD and 100AD, where we can see that the Bible clearly differentiates Cypriots with Greeks!

That is because not all "men from Cyprus" were Greeks. Just like now, back then Cyprus had minorities. A large minority at that time were the Jews, and it is about them that the above refers to. (Barnabas was a Jewish Cypriot)

Most Jews were expelled from Cyprus by the Roman Emperor Trajan after their rebellion against the Romans in 115–117.

Good morning Mr Parlophone.

It seems everything boils down to minorities with you. I can understand the spread of Greek Culture and language; that is undeniable. If a minority absobs this Greek Culture and learns the Greek language, will that make them Greek? They are still Cypriots arent they.

I will put this matter to rest if you provide me census reports of the era, identifying Greeks from Jews and Cypriots, all sperhaps speaking Greek.

Thank you.

[Z4]

So GR, what colour are your Speedos'

[purdey]

What's wrong with speedos ? are they considered not cool ?

[yialousa1971]

Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

GR, in your opening speech, erm sorry, opening para, you quote, "Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

Am I to understand that the people who spoke to Greeks in Antioch did not consider themselves Greek?

Sorry for 'shit stirring', I had no intention of hi-jacking your thread, but I could not proceed with reading at that point.

Good observation! The book of Acts is the 5th in the New Testament and dated between 60AD and 100AD, where we can see that the Bible clearly differentiates Cypriots with Greeks!

What just like Epriots, Cypriots, Athenians, Thracians, Spartans, Macedonians and so on! GR, he who knows little or nothing about history.

[Get Real!]

Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

GR, in your opening speech, erm sorry, opening para, you quote, "Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

Am I to understand that the people who spoke to Greeks in Antioch did not consider themselves Greek?

Sorry for 'shit stirring', I had no intention of hi-jacking your thread, but I could not proceed with reading at that point.

Good observation! The book of Acts is the 5th in the New Testament and dated between 60AD and 100AD, where we can see that the Bible clearly differentiates Cypriots with Greeks!

That is because not all "men from Cyprus" were Greeks.

You're kidding!!!

Just like now, back then Cyprus had minorities. A large minority at that time were the Jews, and it is about them that the above refers to. (Barnabas was a Jewish Cypriot)

The specific quote does NOT refer to Barnabas but to "men from Cyprus" but of course to a Greek nationalist like you that would mean...

"Non Cypriots who either passed through Cyprus in transit or were there on holiday!"



Just as “Men from Jamaica” to you would probably mean…

“Americans traveling through Jamaica in transit!”

[Lit]

Cyprus, A Historical Overview from the Ministry of Interior, Press and Information Office Home Page (pdf format):

http://tinyurl.com/ygza4ov

[Lit]

Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

GR, in your opening speech, erm sorry, opening para, you quote, "Acts 11:20: “Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.”

Am I to understand that the people who spoke to Greeks in Antioch did not consider themselves Greek?

Sorry for 'shit stirring', I had no intention of hi-jacking your thread, but I could not proceed with reading at that point.

Good observation! The book of Acts is the 5th in the New Testament and dated between 60AD and 100AD, where we can see that the Bible clearly differentiates Cypriots with Greeks!

That is because not all "men from Cyprus" were Greeks. Just like now, back then Cyprus had minorities. A large minority at that time were the Jews, and it is about them that the above refers to. (Barnabas was a Jewish Cypriot)

Most Jews were expelled from Cyprus by the Roman Emperor Trajan after their rebellion against the Romans in 115–117.

http://net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=cyprus

Cyprus and the Jews:

The proximity of Cyprus to the Syrian coast rendered it easy of access from Palestine, and Jews had probably begun to settle there even before the time of Alexander the Great. Certainly the number of Jewish residents under the Ptolemies was considerable (1 Macc 15:23; 2 Macc 12:2) and it must have been increased later when the copper mines of the island were farmed to Herod the Great (Josephus, Ant, XVI, iv, 5; XIX, xxvi, 28; compare Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 2628). We shall not be surprised, therefore, to find that at Salamis there was more than one synagogue at the time of Paul's visit (Acts 13:5). In 116 AD the Jews of Cyprus rose in revolt and massacred no fewer than 240,000 Gentiles. Hadrian crushed the rising with great severity and drove all the Jews from the island. Henceforth no Jew might set foot upon it, even under stress of shipwreck, on pain of death (Dio Cassius lxviii.32).