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Palisade. Stauros (σταυρός) is a Greek word for a stake or an implement of capital punishment. The Greek New Testament uses the word stauros for the instrument of Jesus' crucifixion, and it is generally translated as "cross" in religious texts, while also being translated as pillar or tree in Christian contexts.
The Koine Greek terms used in the New Testament of the structure on which Jesus died are stauros (σταυρός) and xylon (ξύλον).These words, which can refer to many different things, do not indicate the precise shape of the structure; scholars have long known that the Greek word stauros and the Latin word crux did not uniquely mean a cross, but could also be used to refer to one, and ...
Ancient Greek has two verbs for crucify: anastauroo (ἀνασταυρόω), from stauros (which in modern Greek only means "cross" but which in antiquity was used for any kind of wooden pole, pointed or blunt, bare or with attachments) and apotumpanizo (ἀποτυμπανίζω) "crucify on a plank", [4] together with anaskolopizo (ἀνασκολοπίζω "impale").
In the Greek text of the New Testament, Jesus is killed on a stauros, almost always translated as a "cross" in English. But it is unclear what exactly a stauros is, and in particular whether it had a cross-piece or was a simple stake. The New Testament says nothing about this, so many scholars have studied the meaning of the word in earlier and ...
The theology of the Cross (Latin: Theologia Crucis, [1] German: Kreuzestheologie [2] [3] [4]) or staurology [5] (from Greek stauros: cross, and -logy: "the study of") [6] is a term coined by the German theologian Martin Luther [1] to refer to theology that posits "the cross" (that is, divine self-revelation) as the only source of knowledge concerning who God is and how God saves.
The main house was built in 1805 and expanded over the many years to its current size of approximately 12,500 square feet (1,160 m 2). The house was a private residence until Mary Cameron, Cameron's granddaughter, estate sold [7] 15.25 acres (61,700 m 2) of the property to Elizabethtown College in 1961. The college used the property for many ...
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The Order of Mountjoy (Spanish: Orden de Monte Gaudio, also known as the Order of Trufac [citation needed]) was a military order during the crusades.. The order of Montjoie is mentioned in the 13th century as having been founded for the purpose of protecting Christian pilgrims in Iberian Peninsula.