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| Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? |
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| 1160, from L.L. gentilis "foreign, heathen, pagan," from L. gentilis "person belonging to the same family, fellow countryman," from gentilis (adj.) "of the same family or clan," |
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| Throughout our Bible, the Greek word §θvoς (ethnos) is translated as "gentile" or as "nation." While Christianity today interprets the word "gentile" as "non-Jew," that is not what it means in the Bible. For writers of the Greek O.T. Septuagint, and of the New Testament, §θvoς meant "ethnic group," or "race." It was most often a reference to our ethnic group, our people of Israel, the lost sheep whom Jesus came to redeem. It was sometimes used to refer to "other ethnic group(s)." Mostly, Jesus and N.T. writers used the word to mean their own specific ethnic group, the Israelites. Never did they mean "all who are not Israelites!" Never does any objective scholar attempt to pervert §θvoς to mean "all those who are not of the Jewish race." That is a meaning exactly opposite from its true meaning. Yet, that is the generally accepted meaning of the word "gentile" by modern Christianity. It is only in recent years that this perverted meaning has become commonplace. At the time of the 1611 King James translation, the word "gentile" meant "race, tribe, clan." So, the word "gentile," was properly used for that 1611 translation, but now that the meaning has been radically changed, it is not a proper word for translations today |
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| ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "GENTILE" |
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| Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. |
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| Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. |
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| How many sons did Abraham have? |
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| Sarah-1,Hagar-1,Keturah-6 |
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| How many with Sarah, Hagar and Keturah? |
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| Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. |
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| But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. |
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| And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. |
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| O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. |
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| Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. |
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| Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. |
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