Bible Characters & Character Studies
Mercurius
First appears at Acts 14:12
First named in Scripture at Acts 14:12 — read the chapter.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
the Hermes (i.e., “the speaker”) of the Greeks (Acts 14: 12), a heathen God represented as the constant attendant of Jupiter, and the God of eloquence. The inhabitants of Lystra took Paul for this God because he was the “chief speaker.”