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Only Simeon was called Niger, just because he was black. The English word Niger originates from the Latin Nigrum (greek Negros) which means black. Niger were called the people living to the south of Egypt, the land that the ancients called Aithiopia (also Nubia), todays Sudan and further south.
It's a controversial topic to some but yes, having studied languages 'Niger' does refer to the color black. We're never told that's a reference to Simeon's skin that I'm aware of. That is the origin of the word which ignorant racists turned into something derogative over some 300-years ago.
Black people have always been blessed as all races. Moses married an Ethiopian after the death of the first wife. Ethiopians during that time...were all black and God consented this despite Aaron or Miriam's complaints.
The eunuch which Philip witnesses to in the book of Acts was a black Ethiopian. That Ethiopian eunuch is one of the earliest recorded moments of Salvation by Grace of a Gentile in the New Testament.
Reading the Bible in greek it is obvious that the scripture is refered to Simeon's color.
The term "niger" is the archaic English form of what in modern times is written with double g's and is called the N-word, an offensive term. It was not offensive in ancient times though. It was used by Greco-Romans to indentify the Black people. The word actually means Black in its Latin and Greek forms. A long time later during the slavory times it was used in English in an offensive way, and stayed like this till nowadays.
Yes Moses' wife was an Ethiopian, a Black woman.
Yes that treasurer of the Queen Cadace of Ethiopians in Acts 8 was a Black man, like Queen Candace herself.
And some info. The lands that the ancients called Aethiopia or Ethiopia (also Abyssinia and Nubia) stretched from modern South Egypt to modern Ethiopia ( including today's Sudan). The Ethiopian church is an ancient church. It seems brother Philip the Evangelist did a good work under the guidance of the Holly Spirit. This church is one of the very few that is not a result of European missioneries but originates from the time of Apostles. A few centuries later they were included in the Orthodox branch of Christianity. Today they are called the Unified Orthodox Church.
Men discriminate people by their race, their colour, their nationality, but not God. We are all God's children and brothers and sisters to one another. All of us have one Father, the God, one mother, the universal church, and one country, the Kingdom of God, here and in Heaven.
Black people have always been blessed as all races. Moses married an Ethiopian after the death of the first wife. Ethiopians during that time...were all black and God consented this despite Aaron or Miriam's complaints.
The eunuch which Philip witnesses to in the book of Acts was a black Ethiopian. That Ethiopian eunuch is one of the earliest recorded moments of Salvation by Grace of a Gentile in the New Testament.
Just thought I'd add that...
Reading the Bible in greek it is obvious that the scripture is refered to Simeon's color.
The term "niger" is the archaic English form of what in modern times is written with double g's and is called the N-word, an offensive term. It was not offensive in ancient times though. It was used by Greco-Romans to indentify the Black people. The word actually means Black in its Latin and Greek forms. A long time later during the slavory times it was used in English in an offensive way, and stayed like this till nowadays.
Yes Moses' wife was an Ethiopian, a Black woman.
Yes that treasurer of the Queen Cadace of Ethiopians in Acts 8 was a Black man, like Queen Candace herself.
And some info. The lands that the ancients called Aethiopia or Ethiopia (also Abyssinia and Nubia) stretched from modern South Egypt to modern Ethiopia ( including today's Sudan). The Ethiopian church is an ancient church. It seems brother Philip the Evangelist did a good work under the guidance of the Holly Spirit. This church is one of the very few that is not a result of European missioneries but originates from the time of Apostles. A few centuries later they were included in the Orthodox branch of Christianity. Today they are called the Unified Orthodox Church.
Men discriminate people by their race, their colour, their nationality, but not God. We are all God's children and brothers and sisters to one another. All of us have one Father, the God, one mother, the universal church, and one country, the Kingdom of God, here and in Heaven.
GBU
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