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The Non-Christian Cross by John Denham Parsons (English) Paperback Book
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In the thousand and one works supplied for our information upon matters connected with the history of our race, we are told that Alexander the Great, Titus, and various Greek, Roman, and Oriental rulers of ancient days, crucified this or that person; or that they crucified so many at once, or during their reign. And the instrument of execution is called a cross. The natural result is that we imagine that all the people said to have been crucified were executed by being nailed or otherwise affixed to a cross-shaped instrument set in the ground, like that to be seen in our fanciful illustrations of the execution of Jesus. This was, however, by means necessarily the case. For instance, the death spoken of, death by the stauros, included transfixion by a pointed stauros or stake, as well as affixion to an unpointed stauros or stake; and the latter punishment was t always that referred to. It is also probable that in most of the many cases where we have clue as to which kind of stauros was used, the cause of the condemned one's death was transfixion by a pointed stauros. Moreover, even if we could prove that this very common mode of capital punishment was in case that referred to by the historians who lived in bygone ages, and that death was in each instance caused by affixion to, instead of transfixion by, a stauros, we should still have to prove that each stauros had a cross-bar before we could correctly describe the death caused by it as death by crucifixion. It is also, upon the face of it, somewhat unlikely that the ancients would in every instance in which they despatched a man by affixing him to a post set in the ground, have gone out of their way to provide the artistic but quite unnecessary cross-bar of our imaginations. As it is, in any case, well kwn that the Romans very often despatched those condemned to death by affixing them to a stake or post which had cross-bar, the question arises as to what proof we have that a cross-bar was used in the case of Jesus. Nor is the question an unimportant one. For, as we shall see in the chapters to come, there was a pre-Christian cross, which was, like ours, a symbol of Life. And it must be obvious to all that if the cross was a symbol of Life before our era, it is possible that it was originally fixed upon as a symbol of the Christ because it was a symbol of Life; the assumption that it became a symbol of Life because it was a symbol of the Christ, being in that case neither more r less than a very natural instance of putting the cart before the horse. Now the Greek word which in Latin versions of the New Testament is translated as crux, and in English versions is rendered as cross, i.e., the word stauros, seems to have, at the beginning of our era, more meant a cross than the English word stick means a crutch. It is true that a stick may be in the shape of a crutch, and that the stauros to which Jesus was affixed may have been in the shape of a cross. But just as the former is t necessarily a crutch, so the latter was t necessarily a cross.
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ISBN-10
1534648658
ISBN-13
9781534648654
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231g
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279mm
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216mm
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Black & White Illustrations
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Paperback / Softback
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English
Date of Publication
13/06/2016
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Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
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Christianity: General
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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United States
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Christianity: General
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