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JUPITER

The king of gods in the Roman mythology. Antiochus Epiphanes wished to dedicate to him the temple in Jerusalem (2 Macc. 6: 2). The men of Lystra thought that Barnabas was Jupiter in human form (Acts 14: 12-13; see also Acts 19: 35).

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