Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:50 pm
JasonPratt wrote: xrestos means one who anoints with a plaster for healing. The plaster would be sulphuric or mustard, and so be yellow (the more direct meaning for xrestos, or 'golden'); it would also smell terrible.But it would kill the infections and save the person from death. Sound familiar to any biblical language?
At the same time, because of its connection to gold/yellow, xrestos also connotated the sweetness of honey. (Which is what the 1 Pet reference is talking about.)
Hey Jason, could you give me some references on the above points that I can look into?
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- Pat