Not just living among gentiles; they were gentiles (Goyim = out of covenant)
In Macedonia the Danites were the majority population.
What are you doing, playing semantics...That's like saying evryone who is not a Russian citizen is not a Russian citizen...
Of course everyone in the world is out of the Jewish covenant, Israel and Judah included...Does that make everyone in the world non covenant Jews???
The church is not a new covenant...So the Jews and Gentiles who come into the church are still out of covenant...So what???
Joh_7:35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
You can see what the verse says...Apparently you don't like it that way so you change it to:
Joh_7:35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the (dispersed/out of covenant) among the (out of covenant), and teach the (out of covenant)?
It doesn't really matter because the verse clearly shows us that the dispersed/out of covenant are very different from those just out of covenant (if there was such a thing)...
1. goyim
1. A Hebrew word used in the Jewish Scriptures (a.k.a. the Old Testament). The word literally means "nations," and is always used within these scriptures to refer to the nations of the world. Significantly, within the Old Testament, Judah (the Jewish nation) itself is called a "goy."
2. In the Old Testament, the Jews were called to be a nation separate from the other nations, which were all Pagan. And so, colloquially, all non-Jewish nations came to be called "goyim" as in "the nations" from which the God of the Old Testament had called upon the Jews to separate themselves.
3. A word used by some Jews to refer to Gentiles (non-Jews). The word can have derogatory connotations, such as the word "black" when used to refer to a persons of African descent. It can be neutral or negative depending on the context and the intent of the speaker.