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Mercurius
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Mercurius in the Bible Dictionary
- (A pagan god; Mercury (to the Romans); Hermes (to the Greeks))
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Paul taken for, in Lycaonia
Acts 14:11, 12
11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Acts 14:1112 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
Acts 14:12
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.