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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Easter

People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Easter, Acts 12:4 (originally the festival of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eastre), is a mistranslation. It should be, as in the Greek, translated, Passover; the Jewish feast. It is so translated in the R. V.

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Easter'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​e/easter.html. 1893.
 
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