Path: paganini.bofh.team!tor-network!not-for-mail From: "NightBulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.bible Subject: Re: 2nd request; Jw vatican on shape of cross Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:57:44 -0500 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <20231018225744.400415e1.nospam@nightbulb.net> References: <651c4d78$0$3082$1c4686b2@news.club.cc.cmu.edu> <651d8891$0$3083$1c4686b2@news.club.cc.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="57654"; posting-host="JkprVgHnXFvi2yL7k/9vvQ.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:/cXt52pXfw8XXffAJ8Aad6RFRHTE9L9EEPQkfuPVm/I= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-TOR-Router: sha256:MmEwZjpkZjAwOjA6MjU1OjoyMDQ= -- Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:663350 On 04 Oct 2023 15:45:21 GMT servant wrote: > Friend james; let's test that theory, when was it "changed" and by > whom? I'm not asking about the greek word for "pole"; just when the > change in meaning happend and who did it? There never was a change in meaning. STAUROS has always meant a post with a cross-beam or cross-brace. In ancient Greek, if there was no cross-beam, they called it MONOS STAUROS rather than just STAUROS. If Jesus' hands had been nailed to a pole, the Apostles would have written MONOS STAUROS. But they didn't so we know it was a cross. A single stave without a beam is called MONOS STAUROS. The word STAUROS by itself implies a cross-beam or cross-brace. That's why the Greeks had to come up with the compound word, MONOS STAUROS in the first place; to distinguish between the two. -- NightBulb | https://nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch.