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Crete
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Crete (kreet), now Candia. A large island in the Mediterranean sea, midway between Syria and Italy. It is about 140 miles long by 35 miles wide. The people were proverbially liars, Titus 1:12—a character they are said still to bear. "Homer dates all the fictions of Ulysses from Crete, as if he meant to pass a similar censure on the Cretans." Cretans were at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, Acts 2:11; Paul was shipwrecked near the island, and he left Titus there as the first pastor and superintendent, who was "to ordain elders in every city" of the island. Titus 1:5. It is now under the tyranny of the Turks.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Crete'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/c/crete.html. 1893.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Crete'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/c/crete.html. 1893.
