CRISTIANOS, CRISTIANOU

waldo slusher waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 24 21:48:23 EDT 2002


Mitch...

> >Is this word CRISTIANOS, CRISTIANOU meant to be a
> mean
> >word? Did others call christians this word because
> >they did not care for them? I see this word in Acts
> 11
> >and 1 Peter 4 but each time I see it I don't see
> why
> >people say it was a word that others used about
> >christians in a bad way.

<snip>

> it is an insult because it is a diminutive form of
> christos = *little
> christ*. 

This is incorrect. The -IAN comes from a fairly common
Roman suffix, as in Caesarian, referring to those who
follow, belong, or were loyal to a person/leader.


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Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AL

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