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- noun Plural form of
Gentile .
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Examples
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This distinction, by which they call the Gentiles the nations of the world, occurs almost in every leaf, so that I need not bring instances of this nature.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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As men rarely form precise ideas, and still less express them with precision, we call the Gentiles, and still more the
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Isaac, his daughter, and retinue, had taken up their quarters; the Jews, it is well known, being as liberal in exercising the duties of hospitality and charity among their own people, as they were alleged to be reluctant and churlish in extending them to those whom they termed Gentiles, and whose treatment of them certainly merited little hospitality at their hand.
Ivanhoe 2004
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Sidon, etc. The word Gentiles includes, in the Scriptures, all who are not Jews.
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Since the spread of Christianity, the word Gentiles designates, in theological parlance, those who are neither Jews nor Christians.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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That it was not for Jews but Gentiles, is evident from the great number of explanations of Jewish usages, opinions, and places, which to a Jew would at that time have been superfluous, but were highly needful to a
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Mohammedan unbelievers: and next, it implies that the period when this treading down of Jerusalem by the Gentiles is to cease will be when
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The ascribing directly to God of such access to the Gentiles is to be noted.
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(2Ch 20: 20-30); and His dominions over all people, Jews and Gentiles, is asserted.
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Secondarily, the accession of spiritual Israelites to the mother church of Jerusalem from the Gentiles is meant.
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