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Ecrasez L'infame · 02-21-2006, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Ecrasez L'infame

I see in Liddell & Scott Intermediate that chrestos sometimes had a negative meaning in the NT - silly, guileless, simpleminded. Just thought I'd mention it.

Perseus' LS link

EDIT - Apologies, I should put my glasses on before posting. The negative uses are to be found in Plato, Demosthenes, and Ar(istotle?) - not the NT.

Newton's Cat · 02-21-2006, 02:15 PM

IESIS (Ionic Greek), "healing"

CHRESTOS, "good", "kind"

ChandraRama · 02-21-2006, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by gurugeorge

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Both terms are known to go back long before 0 CE. (e.g. tombstone inscriptions), and are connected with the Mysteries (probationers to the Mysteries were sometimes called "Chrestos", and initiates sometimes called "Christos"; Osiris was called "Chrestos"). And "Chrestos" was in Christian use up to the 3rd century CE to describe the Messiah (e.g. Marcionite Synagogue inscription).

If possible, can you provide a link or book for this?

Thanks

Chris Weimer · 02-21-2006, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ChandraRama

If possible, can you provide a link or book for this?

Thanks

Christos is used in the Old Testament, and Chrestos was already cited to have been used by Classical authors. Check Perseus.

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