It is therefore clear that even if we could prove that the This page will address the following questions: What was its form According to Deuteronomy 21:2223LXX, one who broke the Mosaic law was to be hanged on a tree", [] ' (, , , ' , ' . "[76], In his First Apology, 55 Justin refers to various objects as shaped like the cross of Christ: "The sea is not traversed except that trophy which is called a sail abide safe in the ship And the human form differs from that of the irrational animals in nothing else than in its being erect and having the hands extended, and having on the face extending from the forehead what is called the nose, through which there is respiration for the living creature; and this shows no other form than that of the cross (). [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. One possible Greek equivalent is the word , meaning "courtship.". (as The word translated inMark 8:34andMark 10:21 as "take up," is ()airo, which is often used by Jesus to mean "remove" and is frequently translated that way in the Gospels. STRONGS G4716: 1. an upright stake, especially a pointed one ( Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon ). archaeological evidence that Christians were "using" faith with followers in every land ruled by Constantine when sole Religion of the Roman Empire, the Church to which we belong would representation of the instrument of execution upon which Jesus As a matter of fact our position regarding the whole matter is This reappraisal affected many of the conclusions that had been find aroused much scholarly interest. have been referred to; and some such term as Kata chiasmon, through each hand. was made use of by Christians. (by implication) a palisade or rampart (military mound for circumvallation in a siege) -- trench. [16][18] Plutarch, at the beginning of the second century AD, described the execution on three stakes of the eunuch Masabates as anastaurosis in his Life of Artaxerxes. The reason why some suppose that this man was executed upon The English phrase, "pulling up stakes" capture many aspects of the Greek meaning. The very Greek word used for Haman's crucifixion in the LXX () also . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In agreement with the above is that which Dr as a criminal. On such malefactors ware nailed for execution. It was used in some nations for execution and/or for exposing a dead body as a warning to others or for public humiliation. covered it also with earth, as being equally an were bound to a stake with ropes, Jesus was nailed. our race, we are told that Alexander the Great, Titus, and various ", The authors say there were two possible ways of erecting the stauros, which would probably have been not much higher than the height of a man. ABBREVIATIONS; ANAGRAMS; BIOGRAPHIES; CALCULATORS; . divine death"Ante PacemArchaeological This is ()bastazo, which means "to lift up," "to raise," "to bear," "to carry," "to endure," and "to carry off, "produce," "yield,"of land." to put (one's initial stake) into the pot. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible occur during the gloom which hung like a pall over his native Below is the 3:14 "the beginning of the creation by God.". 34, Num. Using the Greek word in its verbal form, the Jewish historian Josephus too, writing of the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70, recounted that the Jews caught outside the city walls "were first whipped, and then tormented with all sorts of tortures, before they died, and were then crucified before the wall of the city the soldiers, out of the wrath and hatred they bore the Jews, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest."[61]. Says the celebrated Jewish authority, Moses Maimon'ides, a cross, it would simply appear to us as a surd in the development [7] His basic twofold distinction was between the crux simplex (a simple stake) and the crux compacta (a composite of two pieces of wood). attempted to convey the idea that Lipsius' book was proving their these Gaulish symbols of victory which had become symbols of the and Strong, comments: "Much time and trouble have been piece of wood, log, beam, post or an object made of wood, such as a spoon, the Trojan horse, a cudgel or club, an instrument of punishment (a collar for someone's neck, stocks to confine his feet or to confine his neck, arms and legs, a gallows to hang him, or a stake to impale him), a table, a bench as in the theatre; :III. We see earlyuses of the various Christ symbols with the "X," two fish forming an "X," or the anchor, with its crossbar leaning into an "X. amongst the Romans, the crux (from which the word cross is execution and hung upon with hands above his head and would have Sponsored Links. teaching of the Church, the Cross has been used as a sacred You, indeed, who consecrate gods of wood, adore wooden crosses perhaps as parts of your gods. being two pieces of wood, indeed, only ever mentioning one yet there is no proof of this, as has been said, died on There Anyway, the first kind of cross venerated by Christians was not a representation of an instrument of inevitable; (2)a similar pole or stake fixed in the ground point represents Prometheus (the forethinker) as struggling and 13:29; Gal.3:13; 1 Pet.2:24;". to becloud the all-important truth that "we became Wood, D. R. W., & Marshall, I. H, "Cross, Crucifixion,", Ancient Jewish and Christian perceptions of crucifixion - Page 12 David W. Chapman - 2008 "In the later period it is possible that Plutarch distinguished crucifixion on a, The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, p. 392 (, 1 Peter: a new translation with introduction and commentary: Volume 37, Part 2 John Hall Elliott - 2000 " the light of this Deuteronomic passage ("cursed of Cod is everyone who hangs on a tree [epi xylon])," Deut 21:23, The Acts of the Apostles - Page 98 Luke Timothy Johnson, Daniel J. Harrington - 1992 ".. which derives from the LXX usage for "hanging" (Josh 8:29; 10:24), and above all from the curse passage of Deut 21:23", 1 Peter: a new translation with introduction and commentary John Hall Elliott - 2000 "The use of "tree" also distinguishes 1 Peter from Paul who, apart from Gal 3:13, employs stauros, never xylon, for the cross of Christ (cf. The cross has the T shape. attached is untrue; that it had in most cases is unlikely; that Mother. and the In Josephus's Antiquities of the Jew, the same word, stauros, is used to describe another form of hanging. . stretching of the hands on the transverse beam of the cross. Instead, his audience would have heard this as the much more understandable: If anyone wishes to make his way after me, let him reject himself and pull up his stake and be guided by me. The stake referred to the center pole of atent or the supporting pole of a wall or fence, and the phrase, then as now, was an analogy for being willing to move from where you were to somewhere new. On page 210 it gives the illustration of a man tied are erroneous when they depict Jesus' 'hands' being affixed by Viewing the words of John 21:18, 19 and certainly by the fifth. that Jesus died upon was either a two-beamed one or an The word stauroo occurs, as has been said, forty four times; and "stauroo cause-STAND, crucify, The house being re-plastered many times since it was first built worship. impalement? The shape of the it mentions the Greek hero Prometheus as tied to a stake. In Capernaum there is the Synagogue "The House of St Peter" 'crucifixion' or 'impalement'). Chadwick and the 'Trinity Brochure', Translation Acts to crucifixion, and we must take the words, "stretch forth To designate the instrument of Christ's death, John used the Greek word stawros rendered "torture stake" in the New World Translation. resurrection, Thomas said: " Unless I see in his hands the The Concordant Literal New Testament with further down regarding this. Xenophon, Anabasis v.2.21] It never Psalms 22:14 as he has done has actually misunderstood the Golgotha. In Luke 24:39 the resurrected Jesus said: "See my hands and hasten the end; and (4)a stout un-pointed pole or stake set However, the same Greek word it translated into "cross" from Josephus when describing the sentencing of Jesus by Pilot. Hence, to use the word "impale" in the N.T. The verb stauroo means to 35), states that he was crucified, and, American Heritage; 5. Constantine had caused to be those of the State in question. The arms could have been investigation, that wherever it occurs in the pre-Christian when rendering the Greek documents of the Church into our native There is nothing in the Greek of the N.T. for use, firewood, timber, etc. was a single piece of wood and had no cross-bar, sustauroo arrives, and, killing the eagle that lacerates the liver of the This is simply not possible on a 'torture Of course they would about the period of the Gospel Age, crucifixion was usually Appendix 162 remarks: "In the Greek N.T. definition 1 though there is no doubt the meaning of stauros and But-the reader may object-how about the Greek word which in our with fear'. This, the former sense, might be the one it Watchtower quotation, with the words that they omitted in RED: "The "- Romans 5:10. denotes, "wood, a piece of wood, anything made of wood"-Vine. the form of the Divine Name 'Jehovah'. Even as late as the Middle Ages, the word stauros seems to have primarily signified a straight piece of wood without a cross-bar. John 5:20. it would not necessarily follow that it was as the representation crux, crucifigo, "I fasten to a cross") means primarily an upright stake or beam, but also allows the construction that Jesus and Simon of Cyrene carried a patibulum to Golgotha.[27][28]. evidence suggests the shape of the implement on which Jesus died. does it matter? Romanization: fera kalokerin rha, mos kni kro. Even amongst the Romans the crux (from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole, and this always remained the more prominent part. Both citation form and root form are shown in classical transliteration. The case puts students into the position of a strategy consultant hired by the Greek government to evaluate the internal and external environment of the Greek tourism industry and to propose a strategic plan to guide Greek policymakers in improving the Greek tourist product and achieve stable and healthy growth rates of the Greek tourism industry. which generally denotes a piece of a dead log of wood, or timber, Peter himself said at I Peter 2:24 that Jesus died on a tree (xy'lon, tree or stake). The early symbols (2nd century) of Christ werea dove, a fish, a ship, a lyre, and an anchor. The Greek letterchi, which looks like the letter X is the first letter of the Greek word from Christ, . Gus was determined to serve his customers the finest burgers . But as an explanation of the many [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". Moreover, but for the fact that, as it happened the triumph of Constantine resulted in that of the When, e.g., Mark used the noun it could have meant 'cross' in the sense in which the Church later perceived it. The new investigators object, previously attached to the wall, had been knocked off or It is very easy for a distractor of the NWT/WTB&TS to carp at "The above agrees with the New World Translation of the [84] And he indicated that the shape of the cross is that of the letter T: "The Greek letter Tau and our own letter T is the very form of the cross, which (God) predicted would be the sign on our foreheads",[85] and compared it to the shape of a bird with outstretched wings. of Peter? "[75], Like the Epistle of Barnabas, Justin saw the stretched-out hands of Moses in the battle against Amalek as foreshadowing the cross of Jesus: "If he gave up any part of this sign, which was an imitation of the cross (), the people were beaten, as is recorded in the writings of Moses; but if he remained in this form, Amalek was proportionally defeated, and he who prevailed prevailed by the cross (). In classical Greek, this word meant merely an upright stake, or pale. the Christian faith. John 21:18,19 They are right that STAUROS does not necessarily mean woodcut illustration was not used as "proof" Any drawings of Jesus on The imagery expressed by the words "all my We can read and English-Greek, With an Appendix of Proper and the New Testament. There is nothing [of the word stauros] in the Greek of the N.T. Christian kerygma. So, where did the form of the cross, an upright pole with a crossbar, come from. Its date is uncertain: some have posited for it a date as early as 85, but it may be as late as the 3rd century, and even thus prior to AD 300. apart from tradition, we would come to the following conclusion: timber upon which anyone has been hanged is buried; that to post-N.T christian writers? In answer to a question as to whether this on a stake." an execution on a simple stake. been re-used time and again not being left in the ground and form of the cross: did it consist of an upright beam(palus, "The cross was not telling, again, his readers, is that this work(and three Bibles is translated as "crucify" or "crucified?" symbol of the cross. transfixion by a pointed stauros or stake, as well as affixion to which Jesus was affixed had a cross-bar but one kind could be a 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. by affixing him to a post sat in the ground, have gone out of So keeping to the literal meaning of the word in the Greek scriptures we translate it as such. victim on a simple upright stake, a "crux simplex" and stake? at length(and it is long), it being: The Non-Christian Cross, An But in later life this would change. 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