Translated from the
original by Costas Balomenos
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he word "Christ" is a translation of the Aramaic word MESHICHA,
which also is derived from the Hebrew word MASHIACH, which in the Hellenistic
years hellenized in Messiah. In the New Testament, the Greek word Μεσσίας (Messiah) is encountered
twice and even is accompanied with the translation “Christ”: «First, he finds his
brother Simon and tells him, “We have found the Messiah, which translated means Christ”» John
1:41 and «He saith to him the
woman “I know that will come the Messiah, the so-called Christ”» John 4:25.
The Greek word χριστός(christos) is produced from the verb χρίω(chrio), meaning anoint and was formed by the verbal adjectives ending in –τος(-tos), of the Greek language. As an adjective,
the word christos is found in the ancient Greek poets of tragedy. Apart from tragedians poets, we meet this and in the “Septuagint” (O’), who
- as we know - they translated the Old Testament from Hebrew
into Greek...
