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The Greek adverb “εὐγενής”

Limited to Lk. 19:12; Acts 17:11; 1 Cor. 1:26, the Greek adjective “eugenes” meant “noble-minded,” “high-born,” or of “noble birth/character.”  Jesus described a “certain nobleman” (Lk. 19:12).  Not many of the Corinthian converts were influential people (1 Cor. 1:26).  Acts 17:11 says some who heard the gospel were “‘well-disposed’ to the truth, more ‘right minded’ in that they ‘received the word’ with complete alacrity of mind” (Dictionary of New Testament Theology, 1:188).