Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 14:12
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Acts14:12
12 And they called Barnabas , Jupiter; and Paul , Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.
Whom the Heathens took for their chief God.
Mercury was feigned to be the Messenger of their gods, (and therefore represented with wings;) as also the Interpreter of the gods, which caused their applying of his name to Paul.
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