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1 | Crusifiction of Christ | Bible general Archive 1 | Love Fountain | 40763 | ||
Dear ddrundle, The Cross and Crucifixion. This Is Appendix 162 From The Companion Bible. In the Greek New Testament two words are used for "the cross" on which the Lord was put to death. 1. The word stauros; which denotes an upright pole or stake, to which the crimminals were nailed for execution. 2. The xulon, which generally denotes a piece of a dead log of wood, or timber, for fuel or for any other purpose. Is is not like dendron, which is used of a living, or green tree, as in Matthew 21:8; Revelation 7:1, 3; 8:7; 9:4, etc. As this latter word xulon is used for the former stauros, it shows us that the meaning of each is exactly the same. The verb stauroõ means to drive stakes.1 Our English word "cross" is the translation of the Latin crux; but the Greek stauros no more means a crux than the word "stick" means a "crutch". Homer uses the word stauros of an ordinary pole or stake, or a single piece of timber.2 And this is the meaning and usage of the word throughout the Greek classics.3 It never means two pieces of timber placed across one another at any angle, but always of one piece alone. Hence the use of the word xulon (No. 2, above) in connection with the manner of our Lord's death, and rendered "tree" in Acts 5:30; 10:39; 13:29. Galatians 3:13. 1 Peter 2:24. This is preserved in our old English name rood, or rod. See the Encycl. Brit., 11th (Camb.) ed., volume 7, page 505d. There is nothing in the Greek of the New Testament even to imply two pieces of timber. The letter chi, , the initial of the word Christ , was originally used for His Name; or . This was superseded by symbols and , and even the first of these had four equal arms. These crosses were used as symbols of the Babylonian sun-god, , and are first seen on a coin of Julius Cæsar, 100 - 44 B.C., and then on a coin struck by Cæsar's heir (Augustus), 20 B.C.4 On the coins of Constantine the most frequent symbol is ; but the same symbol is used without the surrounding circle, and with the four equal arms vertical and horizontal; and this was the symbol specially venerated as the "Solar Wheel". It should be stated that Constantine was a sun-god worshipper, and would not enter the "Church" till some quarter of a century after the legend of his having seen such a cross in the heavens (EUSEBIUS, Vit. Const. I. 37). The evidence is the same as to the pre-Christian (phallic) symbol in Asia, Africa, and Egypt, whether we consult Nineveh by Sir A. H. LAYARD (ii 213), or Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by Sir J. GARDNER WILKINSON, iii. pages 24, 26, 43, 44, 46, 52, 82, 136. Dr. SCHLIEMANN gives the same evidence in his Ilios (1880), recording his discoveries on the site of prehistoric Troy. See pages 337, 350, 353, 521, 523. Dr. MAX OHNEFALSCH - RICHTER gives the same evidence from Cyprus; and these are "the oldest extant Phoenician inscriptions"; see his Kypros, the Bible, and Homer : Oriental Civilisation, Art, and Religion in Ancient Times, Plates XIX, XXV, XXVI, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XL, LVIII, LXIX, etc. The Catacombs in Rome bear the same testimony : "Christ" is never represented there as "hanging on a cross", and the cross itself is only pourtrayed in a veiled and hesitating manner. In the Egyptian churches the cross was a pagan symbol of life, borrowed by the Christians, and interpreted in the pagan manner. See the Encycl. Brit., 11th (Camb.) ed., volume 14, page 273. In his Letter from Rome Dean Burgon says : "I question whether a cross occurs on any Christian monument of the first four centuries". Read the rest of this at www.therain.org. Bless you, Love Fountain |
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2 | Crusifiction of Christ | Bible general Archive 1 | jmscott2 | 40810 | ||
let's use the scriptures to answer!....without any rhetoric of dictionaries...and man made encyclopedia's.....Read exodous 12:7....put blood in three places.Now read Revelations 11:8 were our lord was crucified.Both of these texts agree.Now read Matthew 5:17,18...jesus came to fufil the law and prophets and "everything" in them.Proof read Luke 24:27...and verses 44-47...who wrote exodous?moses did.Who cares what a man wrote down in uninspired book!....what does the bible say?....the israelites were too spread the blood on three places..2 doorpost...and the lintel....how did jesus come fulfil that by dying on a cross....just like it said in Revelations where out lord was crucified...the lamb...on the cross in three places...i did not use any special words of man made books on what theologians thought or wrote just the scriptures Read john 5:39.......how can use what romans wrote who polluted the holy writings with their ideas of what god meant?these men worshipped pagan gods..and idols...and they are to tell us how the saviuor died and on what!...Read exodous 12:7 again and Revelations 11:8....and 13:8.......use only the holy spirit to teach....not brittanica! | ||||||
3 | Crusifiction of Christ | Bible general Archive 1 | Love Fountain | 40884 | ||
Dear jmscott, Please reread what I copied and pasted from another website. The point of the appendix was the shape of the cross which is clearly stated at the end of the appendix which can be read at the website I found this at. Did you go to the website and read the rest of the appendix? Bless you, Love Fountain John 19:16-17 16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. 17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: KJV |
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4 | Crusifiction of Christ | Bible general Archive 1 | jmscott2 | 40893 | ||
what was the shape of the doorpost written in Exodous 12:7?......and how many places was the blood placed?....and what did jesus say in john 5:39...when he said this to his diciples at that time the only scriptures were genesis-malachai......i am not sure if you misread what i said earlier....but jesus did die on a cross.....that is why he said this in Matthew 5:17,18.......came to fulfil everything....not just somethings.....including this compare exodous 12:3-7...to revelations 11:8 | ||||||
5 | Crusifiction of Christ | Bible general Archive 1 | jmscott2 | 40894 | ||
yes i read your earlier post and yes there were different shapes of the cross....but as far as the exact shape jesus died on we will never know...but we can agree that he indeed was nailed in three places!.....according to the scriptures Exodous 12:7 compared to Revelations 11:8.....i like your information....i just try to use the scriptures...just my...anyway the holy spirit does the teaching......good night! | ||||||
6 | Crusifiction of Christ | Bible general Archive 1 | Love Fountain | 40903 | ||
Dear jmscott2, I agree and goodnight to you. Bless you, Love Fountain Acts 2:22-24 22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. KJV |
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