>20King Arius of the Spartans. To the high priest Onias. Greetings!

>>3391033
bible was the wirtten record, no?

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>The deuterocanonical books are considered canonical (that is, authoritative parts of the Bible) by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and the Church of the East, but they are considered non-canonical by most Protestants.

>>3391033
There is more
Apostle Paul, First Letter to Corinthians 10-1, (The Letter is addressed to Corinthians Greeks)
>1 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,
>2 and all of them were baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

>>3391196
deepest lore

Keep in mind, this is the greatest masterpiece ever written, the true word of god, the defining book of western culture.

>>3391196
What is spiritual Israel?

>>3391033
I would guess they'd use the concept of every human descending from Adam and Eve as a way to make ethnic Greeks feel connected to these ethnic Jews spreading Christianity.

>>3392272
The Bible isn't the word of God.

it's called diplomacy

We wuz... what exactly?

Hebrew fan fiction. I guess even the hebrews, who are the source for this tale, wish they were Spartans.

>>3394106
And you don't?

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In the City of God, St. Augustine[2] tells the story

Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, "What do you mean by seizing the whole earth; because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you who does it with a great fleet are styled emperor".