- The Greek word Stauros does it mean Cross or Stake?
@RayButterworth: He quoted falsehood as fact; that he didn't author it is of secondary importance (Prior to the European Enlightenment, most humans everywhere were illiterate; as such, letters were not commonly used as symbols by the masses; ancient Babylonians, and their various deities, being no exception to the rule)
- How did the Greek charis come to imply favor?
You might be interested in Moral Transformation, page 166ff, in which Wallace and Rusk argue that "charis" did not have the technical sense many now give it, but always meant "favor" in a reciprocity system, or "favorable" as we would understand it, and that most of the passages in which we see "charis" used in a technical sense, it is referring to the favor that God did for us when he sent
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