Concept

Gentile

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term referring to a non-Jew

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Wherefore the Apostle (Col. 3:10), after saying, "According to the image of Him that created him," added, "Where there is neither male nor female" [*these words are in reality from Gal. 3:28] (Vulg. "neither Gentile nor Jew").
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Gentile is; the author is tied to Gentile in the knowledge graph.
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14. The cause, of his doing so, was--an alleged weakness and inconsistency in the conduct of Peter, and his gaining to his side--not only Jews of inferior account, but Barnabas. 15. The weakness and inconsistency consisted in this: viz: that whereas he himself had been in use to act with the Gentiles, yet after the arrival at Antioch of those who came from James at Jerusalem,--he from fear of the Jewish converts…
Jeremy Bentham, Not Paul, but Jesus
Names Gentile several times; opens on Gentile.
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Athens represented the simplest, the classic type: the state grew directly and mainly out of class divisions that developed within gentile society. In Rome the gentile organization became an exclusive aristocracy amid a numerous plebs of outsiders who had only duties, but no rights. The victory of the plebs burst the old gentile order asunder and erected on its remains the state which soon engulfed both gentile…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Names Gentile several times.
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