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[Malapapa]

Only problem, if you are going to use this as sacrosanct, is that it also does not mention "Cypriots" ... only Greeks! So when did we invent "Cypriots"?

Looks like we got our acts together a long time ago....

Acts 4:36
Ἰωσὴς δὲ ὁ ἐπικληθεὶς Βαρνάβας ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων, ὅ ἐστι μεθερμηνευόμενον υἱὸς παρακλήσεως, Λευῒτης, Κύπριος τῷ γένει.

Joses, called Barnabas by the apostles, which means son of consolation, a Levite and a Cypriot by birth.

[apc2010]

After reading this thread now i understand why clergymen were called bollocks in old england!

[Get Real!]

What about these ones Oracle...

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.

Acts 21:16
Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.

No Levites getting in your way here!

Btw...

"MNASON

na'-son, m'-na'-son (Mnason): All that we know of Mnason is found in Acts 21:16. (1) He accompanied Paul and his party from Caesarea on Paul's last visit to Jerusalem; (2) he was a Cyprian; (3) "an early disciple," an early convert to Christianity, and (4) the one with whom Paul's company was to lodge. The "Western" text of this passage is very interesting. Blass, following Codex Bezae (D), the Syriac, reads, for "bringing," etc., "And they brought us to those with whom one should lodge, and when we had come into a certain village we stayed with Mnason a Cyprian, an early disciple, and having departed thence we came to Jerusalem and the brethren," etc. Meyer-Wendt, Page and Rendell render the accepted text, "bringing us to the house of Mnason," etc. However, giving the imperfect transitive of anebainomen, "we were going up" to Jerusalem (21:15), we might understand that the company lodged with Mnason on the 1st night of their journey to Jerusalem, and not at the city itself. "Acts 21:15, they set about the journey; 21:16, they lodged with Mnason on the introduction of the Cesarean disciples; 21:17, they came to Jerus" (Expositor's Greek Testament, in the place cited.).

http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/M/MNASON/

[Get Real!]

Oh dear… no mention of “Mycenaeans”, “Mycenaean”, or “Mycenae” in the Bible and I thought some of our Greek friends said that Cyprus was FLOODED with them!

If Mycenaeans colonized Cyprus at around 1300BC, then SURELY they would’ve made some of the news!

[Malapapa]

What about these ones Oracle...

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.

Here come the Cypriots in the original language of the New Testament...

Ἦσαν δέ τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες Κύπριοι καὶ Κυρηναῖοι οἵτινες εἰσελθόντες εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν ἐλάλουν πρὸς τοὺς Ἑλληνιστάς, εὐαγγελιζόμενοι τὸν Κύριον Ἰησοῦν

Acts 21:16
Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.

συνῆλθον δὲ καὶ τῶν μαθητῶν ἀπὸ Καισαρείας σὺν ἡμῖν, ἄγοντες παρ' ᾧ ξενισθῶμεν Μνάσωνί τινι Κυπρίῳ, ἀρχαίῳ μαθητῇ


Thus it is possible to be a Cypriot, and recognised as such by Holy Scripture no less, without need for a prefix or any association with Hellenism.

[bill cobbett]

Only problem, if you are going to use this as sacrosanct, is that it also does not mention "Cypriots" ... only Greeks! So when did we invent "Cypriots"?

Looks like we got our acts together a long time ago....

Acts 4:36
Ἰωσὴς δὲ ὁ ἐπικληθεὶς Βαρνάβας ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων, ὅ ἐστι μεθερμηνευόμενον υἱὸς παρακλήσεως, Λευῒτης, Κύπριος τῷ γένει.

Joses, called Barnabas by the apostles, which means son of consolation, a Levite and a Cypriot by birth.

Christos je Panayia.... another bleeding Illegal Settler claiming citizenship by place of birth

[Oracle]

Basically it is saying the Levite from Cyprus!

So "Kiprios" means a "Levite from Cyprus" does it?

NO! NO! NO!

Kiprios refers to the birth! ... to the birth of the Levite! ... where it happened!

So was he or was he not, according to the Holy Bible, Cypriot by birth?

Not according to a faithful translation. Only your domesticated version which does not take account of the case!

Now has GR! found any reference to "Choirokitians" in the Bible (according to Darby)?

[Oracle]

Only problem, if you are going to use this as sacrosanct, is that it also does not mention "Cypriots" ... only Greeks! So when did we invent "Cypriots"?

Looks like we got our acts together a long time ago....

Acts 4:36
Ἰωσὴς δὲ ὁ ἐπικληθεὶς Βαρνάβας ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων, ὅ ἐστι μεθερμηνευόμενον υἱὸς παρακλήσεως, Λευῒτης, Κύπριος τῷ γένει.

Joses, called Barnabas by the apostles, which means son of consolation, a Levite and a Cypriot by birth.

" .... of Cyprus the birth."!

They didn't speak like we do nowadays! That's why yours is a "domesticated" translation towards the target language, English! It's not faithful to the source language!

[Paphitis]

Bible Search for Greeks on or anywhere near Cyprus!

NB:
Old Testament: 1400-400 BCE
New Testament: Around 50-300 AD


Search: “Greeks in Cyprus”
Result: No Results Found!
http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q= ... us&ver=kjv

Search: “Greeks of Cyprus”
Result: No Results Found!
http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q= ... us&ver=kjv

Search: “Greeks from Cyprus”
Result: No Results Found!
http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q= ... us&ver=kjv

Search: “Cyprus Greeks”
Result: No Results Found!
http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q= ... ks&ver=kjv

Search: “Greek Cyprus”
Result: No Results Found!
http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q= ... us&ver=kjv

Search: “Greek Cypriot”
Result: No Results Found!
http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q= ... ot&ver=kjv

Search: “Cyprus”
Result: 8 Results
http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=Cyprus&ver=kjv


In fact, there’s not a single mention of ANY Greek person on Cyprus!

This “Greek Cypriot” label rubbish has to be dropped altogether!

Henceforth use “Cypriot” or “Christian Cypriot”.


Regards, GR.


Thank you God!

The Greeks had even inhabited areas of Palestine, Greek was widely spoken in Roman times, and the book of nonsense, the Bible, was even written in Greek.

You OP is absolute nonsense I'm afraid.

[Paphitis]

Not to mention The Church of Cyprus is autocephalus from the Chruch of Greece.


Coat of arms of the Church of Cyprus

You can stick your Byzantine symbol up your bum.

This double headed eagle does not represent ALL Cypriots like me!

One head doesn't seem to know what the other is doing. It is like an eternal tug of war, which has resulted in the weak becoming very delusional!