Easton: Conversation

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Source: Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897) (Conversation) · external_aligned

Generally the goings out and in of social intercourse (Eph. 2:3; 4:22; R.V., “manner of life”); one’s deportment or course of life. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of verbal communication from one to another (Ps. 50:23; Heb. 13:5). In Phil. 1:27 and 3:20, a different Greek word is used. It there means one’s relations to a community as a citizen, i.e., citizenship.

Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)

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