THE HELLENICITY OF ANCIENT MACEDONIA

The hellenicity of ancient Macedonia, even in a larger geographical sense, can be proven in a thousand-and-one ways, but I believe the book of Daniel alone would be enough. In chapter 8 (eight) verse 21 (twenty-one) we read: "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia", referring to Alexander the Great. Notice the fact that he is not referred to as the king of Macedonia, which wouldn't make any difference anyway, since Macedonia was part of the Hellenic World, but as the king of Hellas (Grecia, Greece!). Alexander himself had been raised up as Greek under the tutorship of one of the greatest Greek philosophers, Aristotle, and spoke and spread all over the vast empire he had formed by his speedy conquests, the Greek language, the Koine, in which the New Testament was written. This is much stronger a proof that Alexander the Great was Greek, than that Everest is the highest mountain of the world!