Proselytes
Described -- Es 8:17; Isa 56:3. Required To give up all heathen practices. -- Ezr 6:21. To give up all heathen associates. -- Ru 1:16; 2:11; Ps 45:10; Lu 14:26. To be circumcised. -- Ge 17:13; Ex 12:48. To enter into covenant to serve the Lord. -- De 29:10-13; Ne 10:28,29. To observe the law of Moses as Jews. -- Ex 12:49. Unfaithfulness in, punished -- Eze 14:7. From the Ammonites and Moabites restricted for ever from holding office in the congregation -- De 23:3. From the Egyptians and Edomites restricted to the third generation from holding office in the congregation -- De 23:7,8. Were entitled to all privileges -- Ex 12:48; Isa 56:3-7. Went up to the feasts -- Ac 2:10; 8:27. Pharisees, zealous in making -- Mt 23:15. Many, embraced the gospel -- Ac 6:5; 13:43. Later called devout Greeks -- Joh 12:20; Ac 17:4.