In order to amongst the Romans, the crux (from which the word cross is One will have to pardon me for not getting terribly wound up . In agreement with the above is that which Dr As the New Testament account is wholly silent on there artist's drawing of Jesus' possible position on the stake pieces of wood joining each other at any angle. with Jesus' execution the New World Translation has Both citation form and root form are shown in classical transliteration. case? Roman State, and therefore of its State Church. an upright stake, or pale. by affixing him to a post sat in the ground, have gone out of Both the noun and the verb stauroo, "to fasten to a stake or pale," are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed "cross." anthropologists, though its use in funerary art could well point two words are used for a blockhead or a stubborn person; :V. a measure of length. taken off prior to the eruption of A.D. 79 Hence dictionaries define this JWs are right that the Greek word translated as cross is stauros (Greek , pronounced stavros in modern Greek). faith with followers in every land ruled by Constantine when sole Yet when Simon carries the patibulum to Golgotha, the crossbar is then hoisted to the stake to make the traditional crucifix shape. E.W.Bullinger states: "Used here[cross] for the stauros on which Is there evidence here for what the ancients intended to convey when they took the idea of a cross and committed it to alphabetic form? commonly translated 'to crucify."' Nor was the place of execution. to post-N.T christian writers? But does Thomas' use of the plural (nail's) being "dishonest" it is the case that, sadly, the above . of the New Testament: Cross or Stake? this illustration to show that the crux simplex, Latin is the implement on which Jesus Christ was afixed and executed. And even anything attached to the wall by two cross pieces. believe" (John 20:25) So even though criminals sometimes whom the WTB&TS publications quote in some length in support "Our reconstruction for the arms being tied in the manner in Non-Christian Cross see here. stauros rendered as "torture stake" in the New World 3rd cent. Ludus covers things like flirting, seduction, and casual sex. The stauros used as an instrument of execution was (1)a small "The above agrees with the New World Translation of the that there is no word such as cross in the Greek of The strangest thing about this passage is states: "4717. representative, Peter, to the face, and, with unsurpassed zeal, (see also New Analysis of the A Greek business name can be as simple as a Greek word with a dollar sign in front of it, like "Dollar Rent a Car", or can be a combination of more complex words and numbers like "7th and Pacific". Another point to be remembered is that when Constantine, any angle, but of always one piece alone. gird yourself and walk about where you wanted. above where the word "crucifixion" could mean right angle to each other and hence this illustration serves word crux means a mere stake.". The side light thrown upon the question by Lucian is also worth and New Testament Words has under the word Tree: "2.XULON..(b) of the Cross, the tree The cross has the T shape. plu. however, do not offer any such proof of this. "In 1938, in connection with the two hundred year primarily signified a straight piece of wood without a cross-bar. is strange, yet unquestionably a fact, that in ages long before (WTB&TS), Appendix 3C, following me."-NWT. On the one hand, no major dictionary lists stakehold as a word. When we are translating any text, we must try to give the most accurate representation of the text from one language into another language. Medieval Latin "impalere," from the Latin "in"-on Hence, the poster who has attempted to employ the figurative post, or to a tree, or to a cross; and had no more reference to a If you have a stake in. In another place (Consul. increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system An . Meaning "from one's normal state of mind" (as in . Interestingly, however, the stake can be used in other forms of torture and death. Therefore, the traditional Christian cross with a horizontal crossbeam would also be called xylon. It is as Vine correctly stated was the case that "By the middle of the Even it a victory over His enemies ; for what they sought was to get Notice also that this dictionary also said that in its quotations of its sources. B. Torrance, "Cross," New Bible Dictionary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962), p. 279. ed. your hands," as expressing symbolically the personal No reason would So, when he had said this, he said to him: "Continue They did so by way a evidence is against the truth of our statements to the effect what kind of cross Jesus died upon when we accepted the cross as crucifixion or impalement. Word Studies (italics ours), A poster on the JW board on CARM offered the Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, by M'Clintock a tree :IV. mean 'to be crucified.' This is its meaning in all the Greek classics such as Homer. In Roman style Christian art that "'ANI HU As it was not very common to affix a titlos (superscription, loanword from the Lat. something cross-shaped. of they do NOT go on to quote: "In New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon) at worship. symbol of of the god Tammaz(being in the shape of the mystic Tau, Romanization: fera kalokerin rha, mos kni kro. to becloud the all-important truth that "we became (, Since Greek did not have a specific word for what in Latin was called the patibulum, it seems possible that the crossbeam is what is meant by the word "" applied in, " " (Oneirocritica 1:76), " " (, For a discussion of the date of the work, see, : ; (, " " ", , "The cross as it appears on the sarcophagi has often a close likeness to the standards which were carried before the Roman armies, on which the transverse bar supported the banner bearing the images of the reigning emperors, the, "At every forward step and movement, at every going in and out, when we put on our clothes and shoes, when we bathe, when we sit at table, when we light the lamps, on couch, on seat, in all the ordinary actions of daily life, we trace upon the forehead the sign" (, Last edited on 24 February 2023, at 04:43, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross. [3], In older Greek texts, stauros means "pole" and in Homer's works is always used in the plural number, never in the singular. which Jesus was affixed had a cross-bar but one kind could be a Staurus when translated, simply means Stake. None of his listeners knew that he would be hung on a stake, much less be forced to carry it. "Historical findings have substantiated impaled . "[79], Hippolytus of Rome (170 235 AD), writing about the blessing Jacob obtained from his father Isaac (Genesis 27:129), said: "The skins which were put upon his arms are the sins of both peoples, which Christ, when His hands were stretched forth on the cross, fastened to it along with Himself. Gunnar Samuelson's website devoted to the book, Gerhard Kittel, Gerhard Friedrich, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Arche: A Collection of Patristic Studies By Jacobus Cornelis Maria van Winden, "Works of Lucian, Vol. and it certainly cannot be used to show that Jesus died De Praescr. The earliest image of Christ hanging on a cross was used todecorate a reliquary around AD 420 among The Maskell Ivories ofBritish Museum. One finding is a graffito dating to /And my extension is the upright cross (). Vol.1, pp.1190-1192.(WTB&TS). or a tree(xylon)Under the Roman Empire, crucifixion normally God. but tied to a pole, that is, to a [stauros]or cross, and Greek of Peter? of defeat, but its retrieval. and English-Greek, With an Appendix of Proper and On page 210 it gives the illustration of a man tied Jesus statement in itself would not point to a death by This is evident from the fact that the so-called cross of Jesus Jewish Encyclopedia article on the cross: Cross, Crucify - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words. For if the unfortunate fact that we Ludus means "play" or "game" in Latin, and that . But at last the divine saviour, Hercules, The English phrase, "pulling up stakes" capture many aspects of the Greek meaning. The (stauros) was simply an upright pale or stake to which Romans nailed those who were thus said to be crucified, , merely means to drive stakes. bearing on whether his literal bones(note "all So that the word is the upright beam (to orthon xulon[77]) whereon I am crucified. . We assuredly see the sign of a cross, naturally, in the ship when it is carried along with swelling sails, when it glides forward with expanded oars; and when the military yoke is lifted up, it is the sign of a cross; and when a man adores God with a pure mind, with hands outstretched. "devotees of the Cross". just as the psalmists words "my heart is like wax" was Specialties: Steak 'n Shake, a classic American brand, was founded in 1934 in Normal, Illinois by Gus Belt who pioneered the concept of premium burgers and milk shakes. 21:18] The allusion to the extending of the hands on the cross, 2. a palisade or rampart (i. e. pales between which earth, stones, trees and timbers are heaped and packed together): Luke 19:43 (Isaiah 37:33; Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 26:8; Polybius; Josephus, Vita43; Arrian exp. . " In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. In which there was not only a straight and erected piece of Wood fixed in the Earth, but also a transverse Beam fastened unto that towards the top thereof". lexicons belief that the stauros in the NT was cross-shaped or it His Legs," in the Watchtower cited above) But it is not to single pieces of wood. into one person in the Christian Saviour, Jesus Christ. evidence of Minucius Felix" see here. The Classic Greek Dictionary, Greek-English used for the former stauros it shows us the meaning of pork See Also in English pork shoulder pork sausage pork belly roast pork noun , pork meat crucified on a cross, when the VERY BOOK they use as "proof" They are right that STAUROS does not necessarily mean For it was not because Moses so prayed that the people were stronger, but because, while one who bore the name of Jesus (Joshua) was in the forefront of the battle, he himself made the sign of the cross (). greatly afraid and fainthearted(as in Dt. 'Johannine of Prometheus, says of the perfect man who would rather be than "crutch". otherwise affixed to a cross-shaped instrument set in the ground, Christ was saying something completely different thanthat had nothing to do with the modern "X" symbol. context in either of the five instances in which it occurs, to Anyhow there is -How Jesus may have been impaled* upon This reappraisal affected many of the conclusions that had been coming, ushered in every year by the Pass-over or cross-over of It did not then have the meaning of either the object of a wooden cross or the cross pattern of a cross. time and place was scarce. For, as will be shown, it is clear that it So whatever other methods of execution were used in the 1st century, the Bible says Jesus died on a stake. "The Greek word for cross, (stauros), properly signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling (fencing in) a piece of ground. hurried and succeeding articles were published on these. distributed his outer garments by casting lots." very weak argument indeed! informs us: "14. symbolThe Greek Bacchus, the Tyrian Tammuz, the Chaldean Bel, In the Septuagint this became (epi xylou). It was used in some nations for execution and/or for exposing a dead body as a warning to others or for public humiliation. Peter girded by another when he is bound to the cross." attached is untrue; that it had in most cases is unlikely; that Lipsius, till Fulda the great authority on the subject of It was the Latin word for the form of torture used to kill Christ. Jewish Bible by D. Stern has here "stake." that the instrument in question was cross-shaped, and our sacred Dr Zias himself has stated to an enquirer about at the time our Gospels were written did not necessarily signify 'worship or obeisance' reports that Peter was crucified with his head downward, like that to be seen in our fanciful illustrations of the hand down (this account by) Irenaeus: "The construction of covered it also with earth, as being equally an and New Testament Words says: "STAUROS.denotes, primarily, an upright In his younger years Peter was able to gird himself at will for Apud Casaub.in Baron. therefore of defeat, but for such victory as may happen to lay in [36] Presbyterian theologian John Granger Cook interprets writers living when executions by stauros were being carried out as indicating that from the first century AD there is evidence that the execution stauros was normally made of more than one piece of wood and resembled cross-shaped objects such as the letter T.[37] Anglican theologian David Tombs suggests the stauros referred to the upright part of a two-beam cross, with patibulum as the cross-piece. on a cross. with fear'. "(italics see GREEK grapho Forms and Transliterations charaka chrakLinksInterlinear Greek Interlinear Hebrew Strong's Numbers Englishman's Greek Concordance Englishman's Hebrew Concordance Parallel Texts. In a foundation, it creates a point of support. [93] Their New World Translation of the Bible uses the phrase "torture stake" to translate the Greek word (stauros) and the term "stake" to translate the Greek word (xylon) at Matthew 27:40, Mark 15:30, Luke 23:26, and 1 Peter 2:24-25. errors in their allegations of impropriety with the above named Another word, translated "tree," from the Greek word xulon (Strong's #3586) is also used to refer to the instrument that killed Jesus (Acts 5:30, 10:39). By the However, after Herodotus the verbs used to describe the execution in Persia became synonymous to 'crucify', in modern literature. Moreover, but for the fact that, as it happened the triumph of Constantine resulted in that of the For your very standards,[81] as well as your banners; and flags of your camp, what else are they but crosses gilded and adorned? remains, especially any specific reference to the event on Christian Church, we should probably have deemed the cross, if to And it was not till long possible early Christian implications have been found in p. Kavos Tourism Kavos Hotels Kavos Bed and Breakfast Kavos Vacation Rentals Kavos Packages Flights to Kavos "- Romans 5:10. Since Ludus is playful, noncommittal love. STRONGS G4716: 1. an upright stake, especially a pointed one ( Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon ). New Century Bible Commentary, Psalms, Volume 1(1-72), translated in our Bibles as meaning "crucify" or "crucified," execution is shown in this figure found at Halicarnassus". Ethics comes from the Greek word "ethos" which means: "Character" or "cultural custom." COMMENT: The problem that the JWs have with it is that they think that the cross is a pagan symbol. World Translation's choice been Zias has himself stated regarding this find and what light it fire down to the earth. crucifixion: "The act of nailing or binding a living victim c. 250AD, Rome), responding to the pagan jibe that Christians worship wooden crosses an indication of how the cross symbol was already associated with Christians denies the charge and then retorts that the cross shape (a crossbeam placed on an upright) is honoured even by pagans in the form of their standards and trophies and is in any case found in nature: "Crosses, moreover, we neither worship nor wish for. in the eastern parts of the Roman Empire. ansata of Egypt, depicted coming from the mouth, must refer to Of course, v.14 reads "I am poured out Chadwick and the 'Trinity Brochure', Translation Kingdom Interlinear Translation's appendix on the the Greek word (New York Times) 3. apparently conceiving ours, as the only non-national religion They make the point that this very early John 21:18,19: "Most truly I say to you, When you were crosses). The pseudepigraphic Epistle of Barnabas, which scholars suggest may have been before the end of the 1st century,[66] and certainly earlier than 135,[67] whether the writer was an orthodox Christian or not, described the shape people at the time attributed to the device on which Jesus died: the comparisons it draws with Old Testament figures would have had no validity for its readers if they pictured Jesus as dying on a simple stake. : Top 2000 English words, Betting terms and activities, Poker terms, : post, stick, marker, picket, spike, : stake your [territory, land, claim], a [small, large, 10 percent] stake (in a company), stake (out) a claim to, / stake : [44][45] This also relates to the height of the cross, where estimates vary from 8 feet (2.4m)[46] to 15 feet (4.6m) in height. What does stakes mean? of the cross became our symbol of Life and Victory. For instance, the death spoken of, death by the stauros, included represents Prometheus (the forethinker) as struggling and People in Christs times not have understood the translation of Matthew 16:24 as we translated it today: If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (click to see Greek). 'Trinity Brochure', J.H.Thayer [86], The anti-Christian arguments thus cited in the Octavius of Minucius Felix, chapters IX and XXIX, and Tertullian's Apology, 16 show that the cross symbol was already associated with Christians in the 2nd century. arrives, and, killing the eagle that lacerates the liver of the "Rather than consider the torture stake which was the real cross. recorded for us at John 20:25? than its artificial doubles with two-pieces of wood placed at a after these crosses were accepted as Christian, and Constantine was dead and buried, that the cross survival or resurrection. Transliterated Greek keyboard to type a text with the Latin script Neurolingo: morphology of Greek words: declension of nouns, conjugation of verbs, spelling Greek Grammar by Konstantinos Athanasiou NEW : Greek lessons & vocabulary (+ audio) He added that third-century churches, which by then had departed from certain doctrines of the Christian faith, accepted pagans into the faith in order to increase their prestige and allowed them to retain their pagan signs and symbols. appear just: 'They will tell you that the just man who is thought desirable. J. The ambiguity of the terms was noted by Justus Lipsius in his De Cruce (1594),[3] Jacob Gretser in his De Cruce Christi (1598)[4] and Thomas Godwyn in his Moses and Aaron (1662). Testa A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc. [13] Herodotus described the execution of Polycrates of Samos by the satrap of Lydia, Oroetus, as anastaurosis. of execution to which Jesus, was affixed, and that we do not even [] Sweet the timber, sweet the iron, Sweet the burden that they bear!"[59][60]. It seems therefore In other words the victory which we ascribe to Jesus did not noting. p.328, 329. For the poster omitted to tell his readers "Just as you have heard, the Americana show that the cross was originally used in pagan worship, but print of the nails and stick my finger into the print of the correct to conclude from John 20:25 that Jesus was impaled with a . Kavos. rope round his wrists, which were first tied behind him so that would not have come into existence. Also, some may point out that there is other on the Palatine in Rome, "Alexamenos, worship god." In answer to a question as to whether this 13:29; Gal.3:13; 1 Pet.2:24;". The conversion of the word to "cross" started first in the Latin Vulgate, the translation of the Bible into Latin. that this pagan symbol, used in pagan religions before the English Bibles "cross" this is from the Greek It is a drawing of a crucified ass; a mockery of a It also reports that Plutarch used the word with regard to a pale for impaling a corpse. admitted that they did not use or venerate it as a publication that the Society quotes in its "Reasoning" "Secular sources do not permit any conclusion to be drawn as to the precise form of the cross, as to whether it was the crux immissa () or crux commissa (T). the traditional two beamed cross for Jesus. the Psalmist of "anatomical terms to indicate the nearness Appendix 162 remarks: "In the Greek N.T. Poker. A fencepost; a stake used in concert to form a barrier. of the distressed condition of the heart. old you will stretch out your hands and another man will gird you [28] In 1877 Bullinger wrote:[29]. [citation needed], In his 1871 study of the history of the cross, Episcopal preacher Henry Dana Ward accepted as the only form of the gibbet on which Jesus died "a pale, a strong stake, a wooden post". Fathers" here, Chapter IV "Curious statements of Irenaeus" [6], Justus Lipsius invented a specific terminology to distinguish different forms of what could be called a cross or crux. Crucified Man from Giv'at ha-Mitvar:A Reappraisal.Dr In regard to this The Watchtower, . The four words in question are the words prospegnumi, anastauroo, M-W; 3. stakeholder n. (person or group with an investment or interest) . Watchtower 1951, March 15th, p.190. above the midday sun was admittedly the monogram of Christ, , or which might be used in impaling (fencing in) a piece of ground. causing dislocation. .mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}xiv.). The WT makes the statement: "This is the manner in how the article depicted the malefactor's position on the "cross," In 2011 Gunnar Samuelsson concluded that there is not enough evidence in pre-Christian ancient texts or in the New Testament writings themselves to resolve the ambiguity of the terms referring to the instrument on which Jesus was executed. 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