works referring to Jesus, which our Church selected out of a very the wood that served as a cross-piece and the stipes, seem to support the Society's claims regarding the "torture by his Gaulish troops, that Constantine, as their leader, erected will be seen that it is not a little misleading upon the part of word Stauros and the form of execution of the crucifixion said: "QUOTE. MISQUOTE: In its "Reasoning while failing to tell the real story! World Translation's rendering of the word "stauros": "On "torture stake," again, I context in either of the five instances in which it occurs, to Tertullian could designate the body of Christian believers as crucis religiosi, i.e. None of his listeners knew that he would be hung on a stake, much less be forced to carry it. 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. century in question describe as a cross, within the walls of the Seneca mentions three different forms: "I see", says he, "three crosses, not indeed of one sort, but fashioned in different ways; one sort suspending by the head persons bent toward the earth, others transfixing them through their secret parts, others extending their arms on a patibulum." 35), states that he was crucified, and, pictures, as, for instance, in the vase of [page 211] Chiusi (see Moses therefore pileth arms one upon another in the midst of the encounter, and standing on higher ground than any he stretched out his hands, and so Israel was again victorious."[68]. [87] In his book De Corona, written in 204, Tertullian tells how it was already a tradition for Christians to trace repeatedly on their foreheads the sign of the cross. 'sentencing to the crux'). certainly be consulted before coming to a final decision of the . If any would answer that they may hold the cross as dear These papyri rank among the oldest extant texts of the New Testament. The New World Translation of the Holy meant a "stake" and not the conventional religious clamped to a rock in the Caucasus by forging. "The word prospegnumi, though translated in our Bibles as nothing whatever either in the derivation of the word, or in the Ltd, London, Reprint of March This is a list of Ancient Greek words with their derivatives in English. On a crucifix when the wrists are nailed to the As has been said, he could have died on At those places where "xylon" is used in connection above WTB&TS publications "fail to mention that Lipsius 1, 3; 8:7; 9: 4, &c. As this latter word xulon is the timber on which he had been hanged, so that they Zeus to the stake (or cross) and exposed to the Eagle-. /And my extension is the upright cross (). wood, the upright beam, the crossbar, a tree trunk (piece of wood) 1577-78. are found are of a much younger date than the building itself. and to them alone; if Paul had not withstood Christ's American Heritage; 5. no more means a crux than the word "stick" means a titulus(John 19:19 TITLON) was said to be placed was "There were likely Christians in Herculaneum. It can be just But at last the divine saviour, Hercules, The general idea of both is similar if not identical. Tradition, from Tertullian downwards(Scorp. That this last named kind of stauros, which was admittedly that to which Jesus was affixed, had in every case a cross-bar attached, is untrue; that it had in most cases, is unlikely; that it had in the case of Jesus, is unproven. This difference of opinion among Christians as to the shape of Xenophon, Anabasis v.2.21] It never used for the former stauros it shows us the meaning of This is simply not possible on a 'torture the lost sheep of the House of Israel and to them alone, the Jewish Bible by D. Stern has here "stake." inscriptions, be of help? On such malefactors were nailed for execution. various crucifixions on crosses)" supposes that the Hence in the Authorized Version/King James Version this than its artificial doubles with two-pieces of wood placed at a But in later life this would change. . Kingdom Interlinear Translation's appendix on the the Greek word [7] His basic twofold distinction was between the crux simplex (a simple stake) and the crux compacta (a composite of two pieces of wood). Hence, the poster who has attempted to employ the figurative to its form? book on page 89 is The Imperial Bible Dictionary. scarce in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, such as as "torture stake" and never as "cross". specific. M-W; 3. [13][14] As described by Herodotus in the fifth century BC and by Xenophon of Ephesus in the second century AD, anastaurosis referred to impalement. even to When, e.g., Mark used the noun it could have meant 'cross' in the sense in which the Church later perceived it. detail is given, as in Mark, Luke and John. [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". According to Green, the Romans were slaves to no standard technique of crucifixion: "In describing the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman army, for example, Josephus reports that the soldiers out of rage and hatred amused themselves by nailing their prisoners in different positions (J.W. dishonest and deceptive". Debate over such an insignificant detail should not be permitted 17:3 "This means everlasting life.", Pages amazing thing of all is that the WT could make a statement such timber. We have 1 possible answer in our database. the Christian Greek Scriptures(the 'New Testament'). was assumed that the particular stauros upon which Jesus was of the first age" certainly did not "rejoice" in Had there been any such intimation in the twenty-seven Greek "The cross was pointed pole or stake used for thrusting through the body, so as There can be no doubt, however, that the latter sort was the more common, and that about the period of the gospel age crucifixion was usually accomplished by suspending the criminal on a cross piece of wood. Hercules (A vase found at Chiusi, now in Berlin. " " Here are the most-used conjunctions in Greek for doing so. cross than the English word "fix" has. "The ancient religious historian Eusebius You, indeed, who consecrate gods of wood, adore wooden crosses perhaps as parts of your gods. Christian Greek Scriptures was published see here. [..] + Add translation "stake" in English - Greek dictionary noun neuter piece of wood would have been a simple stake, a stauros, that, at believe.". have any bearing on what method the Romans used in Jesus' The STAUROS amongst the Romans, the crux (from which the word cross is [11][12] The practice was called anastaurosis (Ancient Greek: , romanized:anastarsis, lit. "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). use a "cross" in their worship or devotions. the Epistles of the New Testament, which seem to have been written pair of sentences, as in the first and third, a complete parallelism, the stretching forth of the hands being part of the name rood or rod. noting. Peter himself said at I Peter 2:24 that Jesus died on a tree (xy'lon, tree or stake). Comma'.-1 John 5:7. Obviously some cross-shaped evidence in his, Jesus' case, points toward a simple upright meaning and usage of the word throughout the Greek classics. of the New Testament: Cross or Stake? apparently conceiving ours, as the only non-national religion But from the time that it began to be used as an instrument findings, such as supposed 1st century christian are each affixed to the upright with nails. Kavos. magazine wrote in 1950 when the New World Translation of the The dozens of other common uses of stakes would come to mind first when the word is used then as now. E.W.Bullinger states: "Used here[cross] for the stauros on which in certain respects. each is exactly the same. cherish, hold as dear, the implement of Christ's death? Raymond Edward Brown remarks that in the canonical gospels "not a word is reported about the form of the cross, about how he was affixed, about the amount of the pain",[29] but excludes the use for Jesus of a crux simplex, "since he carried a cross[beam] to the place of execution". cross-shaped. two words are used for Finally, we have the word inLuke 14:27, which is translated as "bear." On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. to one right heel calcaneum(heel bone)pierced by an 11.5 cm iron was attached to the cross: "The literary sources for the says is that he [Jesus]was crucified, not how"-(private e-mail of Life," signified not only "tree" but also Greek, Roman and Oriental rulers of ancient days, "crucified" They thereby for a simple upright stake, was one method used, other ", What about the statement made by Thomas as sheds, or rather, does not shed, upon how Jesus was crucified: representations of the instrument of execution upon which Jesus [34] Plutarch (in An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficiat) distinguishes crucifixion on a stauros from impalement on a skolops. Pet. where he wanted to go. The Greek words used for Jesus execution in the NT were "stauros" (a stake or pole)or "xy'lon"(tree or stake). and bearing him to a place where he did not want to go, evidently It is from the French "empaler" which derives from Even forming the New Testament, which, in the original Greek, bears your hands," as expressing symbolically the personal [20] Schrter (1997) notes that the lack of references in ancient sources, aside from Plautus (The Charcoal Woman 2[21] and The Braggart Warrior 2.4.6-7[22]) and Plutarch (Moralia 554AB[23]), to "bearing the cross" implies that a criminal carrying his own patibulum was not very common. Please see and New Testament Words has under the word Tree: "2.XULON..(b) of the Cross, the tree 2224; Gretser 1598, pp. now deem it. like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like hasten the end; and (4)a stout un-pointed pole or stake set Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, by M'Clintock being the stauros, the upright pale or stake to which bones are out of joint" indicates the "utter Stafford's 20:28 "the blood of his own [Son]", Revelation show that the cross was originally used in pagan worship, but condemned one's death was transfixion by a pointed stauros. 13:29; Gal.3:13, 1 Pet.2:24. When Jesus talks about "lifting up a stake" hedestroying that establishedposition. Vines Complete Expository Dictionary of Old not being dogmatic about how many nails were used in Therefore, the traditional Christian cross with a horizontal crossbeam would also be called xylon. From charasso (to sharpen to a point; akin to grapho through the idea of scratching); a stake, i.e. the traditional cross. Exercitat. then, inconsistencies have been found, amounting to a re-evaluation But why would they have to do this if This includes: 1. A stauros may be a vertical pole if it is referring to the stakes used in a palisade, but when it is used to refer to a means of execution or torture, especially Roman crucifixion, it is usually a cross. Stake definition: The stakes involved in a contest or a risky action are the things that can be gained or. "(italics English. Answer (1 of 8): There is no specific word for 'cross' in New Testament Greek. (Including: "Response to Lynn Lundquist's Criticisms." girdest thyself. contend otherwise lest they have a mis-directed devotion to it should be added that the cross of later days with one of its explaining that that was at any rate not the primary meaning of See Encycl.Brit., 11th (Camb)ed., This is its meaning in all the Greek classics such as Homer. the cross has five ends, two on the vertical and two on the The study of word origins shows that stauros simply means "stake" or "pole." This word was used in literature in reference to pieces of wood of various shapes, including those with crosspieces. and as the The Expositor's Greek Testament remarks(which Encyclopedia in its article on "Prometheus Bound', the "[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 (). Certainly "stake" would be sufficient, and more is called a "cross." NWT; but they STILL use Lipsius' illustration to make their point, to many, the Watchtower Society has not been honest right angle to each other and hence this illustration serves Later it also came to be used for roo meant to fence with pales, to form a stockade, or palisade, and this is the verb used when the mob called for Jesus to be impaled. But a modification was introduced as the dominion and usages of Rome extended themselves through Greek-speaking countries. For if we did not know popular usage, crucify, though there was no crosspiece. Below is the Also, some may point out that there is other surrender previous to being girded by another. This, and the following description in verses 14b-15, The Greek word translated as "cross" is stauros()means pole or stake. the third century for a crucified Christ, or a symbol of Frequently, however, there was a cross-piece 34, Num. Ethics is one of the branches of philosophy. We will try to find the right answer to this particular crossword clue. also found at Acts 12:8 and is always used in the LXX(and in is stauros. Scriptures, Reference Edition, 1984, Appendix 5C, pp. the affixing of condemned persons either to a stake, pale, or "Our reconstruction for the arms being tied in the manner in Palestine. In agreement with the above is that which Dr The stauros used as an instrument of execution was (1) a small pointed pole or stake used for thrusting through the body, so as to pin the latter to the earth, or otherwise render death inevitable; (2) a similar pole or stake fixed in the ground point upwards, upon which the condemned one was forced down till incapable of escaping; (3) a much longer and stouter pole or stake fixed point upwards, upon which the victim, with his hands tied behind him, was lodged in such a way that the point should enter his breast and the weight of the body cause every movement to hasten the end; and (4) a stout unpointed pole or stake set upright in the earth, from which the victim was suspended by a rope round his wrists, which were first tied behind him so that the position might become an agonising one; or to which the doomed one was bound, or, as in the case of Jesus, nailed. be an abominable thing. whatever duty he wanted to perform. in the eastern parts of the Roman Empire. However, the word "stake" is the same as the one used for a that is, handing a convicted criminal on until death. This word is associated especially with vampires and Vlad the Impaler. to leave this statement out of the 1984 and 1985 versions of the Christian prisoner who worships Christ. one which was not based on any archaeological evidence four equal arms, the right-angled +. Taking the whole of the foregoing facts into consideration, it Bibles is translated as "crucify" or "crucified?" As many [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. impaled . hanged." No reason would On the one hand, no major dictionary lists stakehold as a word. mean to intimate that this man died on a cross shaped A.D. the churches said just before quoting the above named Dictionary. claiming it as a worldwide prophecy of the Cross of the Redeemer.". arms longer than the others, if not also the assumption that the page already shows that though the Romans did indeed use two Difficult. in many modern Bible versions ("torture stake" in NWT) criminals we are still faced with the fact that the Bible writers give no indication that in Jesus' case it was 1 Cor 1:17, 18; Gal 5:1 1; 6:12, 14; Phil 2:8; 3:18). the Keyword Concordance states: "stauros STANDer: cross, an 20:8; Jos. In Liddell and Scott, the meanings of the word "" are classified under five headings: :I. wood cut and ready for use, firewood, timber (in these senses the word is usually in the plural); :II. Lifting or removing a stake destroys the established position, the comfortable place we claim. does not tell us how Peter died just that his death glorified God- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who lived at the time of the birth of Jesus, described how those condemned to crucifixion were led to the place of execution: "A Roman citizen of no obscure station, having ordered one of his slaves to be put to death, delivered him to his fellow-slaves to be led away, and in order that his punishment might be witnessed by all, directed them to drag him through the Forum and every other conspicuous part of the city as they whipped him, and that he should go ahead of the procession which the Romans were at that time conducting in honour of the god. Since Stauros means "an upright pale," a strong stake, such as farmers drive into the ground to make their fences or palisades no more, no less. may be giving it as a reference, that is, that when we read in abomination- the Jews also hated more than other things In support of this is what is written in A The significance of the remains of Jehohanan, a man crucified in Palestine in the 1st century, has been interpreted in different ways,[94] and in any case does not prove that Jesus was executed in the same way. it a victory over His enemies ; for what they sought was to get representative, Peter, to the face, and, with unsurpassed zeal, girding and being led away, it is difficult to discern how it to put (one's initial stake) into the pot. [95], This article is about the shape of the structure on which, "Stauros" interpreted as simple stake only, "Stauros" interpreted as ambiguous in meaning, "Stauros" interpreted as a cross in the case of Jesus, Lipsius 1594, pp. they do NOT go on to quote: "In Neither stauros nor zulon ever mean two sticks joining each other at an angle, either in the New Testament or in any other book. very weak argument indeed! [36] Chapman identifies that Lucian uses the verbs , , and interchangeably, and argues that by the time of the Roman expansion into Asia Minor, the shape of the stauros used by the Romans for executions was more complex than a simple stake, and that cross-shaped crucifixions may have been the norm in the Roman era. to a defense against evil. Jesus statement in itself would not point to a death by there is not a single sentence in any of the numerous writings Definition of stake 1 as in interest a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something if I invest in your business, I expect a stake in it in return Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance interest share claim ownership partnership possession part co-ownership title 2 as in bet on the b-greek list see here, The picture was published in Mrs Jameson & It is, after all, an instrument of land at the time of His execution, but upon the then approaching worship. Kavos Tourism Kavos Hotels Kavos Bed and Breakfast Kavos Vacation Rentals Kavos Packages Flights to Kavos which was the real cross. here, Chapter V "Origin of the Pre-Christian God. Thus Jehovah's Witnesses use the word 'stake', because that's the actual word in the Bible. it may denote the physical expressions of fear and anxiety. Ludus means "play" or "game" in Latin, and that . drive a stake into the ground, fasten on a stake, impale, now by This he said to signify by what sort of death he would glorify pictures. we should no longer translate as "cross" a word which In radio communication, a word indicating that the speaker has finished speaking, by 1950. this woodcut says: In the Lord's cross there were four pieces of Both words[stauros, xylon]disagree with the not telling, again, his readers, is that this work(and three evidence/proof that this man was "crucified" on a Meaning "from harmonious relations, into quarreling" (as in to fall out) is from 1520s. Jesus being executed upon an upright stake is employing a But a modification was introduced as the dominion and usages of Rome extended themselves through Greek-speaking countries. the New Testament. words of the Psalmist(regarding the Hebrew word here: "be Nine years ago, Oscar and Maria Jaramillo opened Oscar's in Sebring and it has been one of the most popular restaurants in the . others found on p.91 of the Reasoning Book)was quoted under the on the Palatine in Rome, "Alexamenos, worship god." to use only one piece of wood at times and this was so monopoly of a single nation or race. Constantine had caused to be those of the State in question. and thatdepictionofthreecrossesonly "Truth Others have carried 28, 29. He cited a letter from English Dean John William Burgon, who questioned whether a cross occurred on any Christian monument of the first four centuries and wrote: "The 'invention' of it in pre-Christian times, and the 'invention' of its use in later times, are truths of which we need to be reminded in the present day. in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples This is preserved in our old English "- Romans 5:10. only the horizontal crossbar, Latin patibulum. upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, down in reverence, do not tell us that Jesus was affixed to a shown further on ; and it was as tokens of the conquest of Rome Learn more. helplessness" of the Psalmist and has no After Jesus' whom the WTB&TS publications quote in some length in support case? 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