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Headword:
*xrhsto/s
Adler number: chi,515
Translated headword: useful
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] he who/that which is good.[1]
And [one is] good out of love, but not out of necessity.[2]
But *xristo/s ["Christ, Messiah"] [is] he who has been anointed with oil. And *xristo/s [is] our Lord and God. And *xristo/s [is] king.[3]
Greek Original:*xrhsto/s: o( a)gaqo/s. kai\ xrhsto\s e)c a)ga/phs, a)ll' ou)k e)c a)na/gkhs. *xristo\s de\ o( e)n e)lai/w| kexrisme/nos. kai\ *xristo/s, o( ku/rios kai\ qeo\s h(mw=n. kai\ *xristo\s basileu/s.
Notes:
Here and again in
chi 527 the lexicographer is distinguishing two words which were pronounced the same by his time:
xrhsto/s "good" and
xristo/s "anointed." This confusion goes back to the time of Tacitus, who reports that the Christians were followers of one Chrestos (
Annals 15.44.2-8: web address 1).
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] (Lacking, Adler reports, in ms S.) Quotation unidentifiable; tentatively attributed by Adler to Symeon Metaphrastes.
[3] Similar material, variously, in other lexica.
Web address 1
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 November 2002@00:27:15.
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