a convert (NEB, ‘a former convert’) to Judaism (5), i.e. a proselyte. It has been pointed out that all seven had Greek names. They may all, therefore, have been Hellēnistai, deliberately chosen to satisfy this group who were complaining. But this is speculative. It seems more likely a priori that ‘some of both classes of Jews were elected, the only fair and proper course’.39 Whether they were deacons or not, and whether they were Hellēnistai or not, the church presented these men to the apostles,