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Grecian EmpireInsight on the Scriptures, Volume 2
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With lightning speed he conquered Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and the entire Medo-Persian Empire as far as India. But in just a few years Alexander was dead, and in a relatively short time his empire was split four ways, among four of his generals.
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Grecian EmpireInsight on the Scriptures, Volume 2
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In 323 B.C.E., at 32 years of age, Alexander was stricken by malarial fever and died. By 301 B.C.E., four of his generals had established themselves in power: Ptolemy Lagus over Egypt and Palestine; Seleucus Nicator over Mesopotamia and Syria; Lysimachus over Thrace and Asia Minor; and Cassander over Macedonia and Greece (Da 7:6; 8:8; 11:4)
Greek games, such as these shown on a relief found in Athens, were associated with Greek religion and promoted Hellenism. A gymnasium established in Jerusalem thus corrupted Jewish youths
A ceramic platter showing a pig being sacrificed. In a vicious attempt to defile and to stamp out the worship of Jehovah, Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) made such a sacrifice on an altar built over the large one in Jehovah’s temple in Jerusalem and then dedicated the temple to Zeus
Coin bearing the likeness of Antiochus IV (Epiphanes)
Ancient Corinth. Christians in the first-century congregation here had to contend with the influence of Greek philosophy and the morally corrupting practices of its religion
The philosopher Plato, of the fourth century B.C.E., did much to propagate the Greek notion of immortality of the soul
The Alexandrine Manuscript, in Greek, of the fifth century C.E. Most of the Christian Greek Scriptures was originally written in Koine, the common Greek
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