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- noun A
native orinhabitant ofCyrene . - noun One of a
school ofphilosophers established atCyrene by Aristippus, adisciple ofSocrates , withdoctrines nearly the same as those of theEpicureans .
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Examples
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He is said by the Evangelist to have been a Cyrenian, that is, an inhabitant of Cyrene, a city in North Africa.
The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion James Stalker 1887
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We were told an anecdote concerning Simon the Cyrenian, which is not bad.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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We were told an anecdote concerning Simon the Cyrenian, which is not bad.
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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In this case, it was a rumour that the Cypriot and Cyrenian Christian Jews had shared the gospel with Greeks, of whom a great number believed and became Christians.
I Want to be a Barnabas Belinda 2009
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According to the three synoptic gospels the cross was borne not by Christ, but by Simon, a Cyrenian (see Matthew xxvii, 32; Mark xv, 2 1; Luke xxiii, 26).
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What interested me, and kept me thinking was that when the three went out that morning to go to Golgotha, only one was so physically disabled so as to REQUIRE assistance from Simon a Cyrenian Luke 23:26 if it interests you.
Jesus the disabled: The Easter sermon you won’t be hearing Elizabeth McClung 2008
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What interested me, and kept me thinking was that when the three went out that morning to go to Golgotha, only one was so physically disabled so as to REQUIRE assistance from Simon a Cyrenian Luke 23:26 if it interests you.
Archive 2008-03-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008
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And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
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And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
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And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
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