proselytes

+ The term proselytes of the gate was derived from the frequently occurring description in the law the stranger that is within (Exodus 20: 10) etc.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

The influence of the Jews restored from Babylon in making many Gentile proselytes is an earnest of a larger similar effect hereafter (Isa 66: 19; Zec 8: 13). from the Lord -- Israel's restoration and the consequent conversion of the Gentiles are solely of grace. tarrieth not for man -- entirely God's work, as independent of human contrivance as the dew and rains that fertilize the soil.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The ancient rabbins had a beautiful expression for proselytes from the heathen -- that they had "come under the wings of the Shekinah."

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Jews, about sixty years after the commencement of Christianity, in a passage generally admitted as genuine, makes mention of John under the name of John the Baptist; that he was a preacher of virtue; that he baptized his proselytes; that he was well received by the people; that he was imprisoned and put to death by Herod; and that Herod lived in a criminal cohabitation with Herodias, his brother's wife.

Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774

The Christian religion, which addressed itself to the whole human race, must consequently collect a far greater number of proselytes from the lower than from the superior ranks of life.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The Jews baptized proselytes into the name of the Father, that is, into the profession of God, whom they called by the name of Father.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

A political revolution which inspires proselytes, which is preached as passionately to foreigners as it is accomplished at home: consider what a novel spectacle was this.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

These last were further subdivided into two classes, the one being of Jewish blood, the other being proselytes, that is to say, people of non-Israelitish origin, allied in divers degrees to Judaism.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906

What did our Lord call the proselytes of the Pharisee and the Scribe?

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

The judaizing teachers would have the Gentile converts submit to all that those submitted to whom they called the proselytes of righteousness, to be circumcised and keep the whole law; but the apostles required no more of them than what was required of the proselytes of the gate, which was to observe the seven precepts of the sons of Noah, which, he thinks, are here referred to.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721