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[Petronella Clark]

I have also been told that what Jesus carried was only the cross-bar which would be fixed on the upright post permanently waiting at the place of execution....
Also that in Roman crucifixions the poor victim had a sort of seat to support his weight, in order to prolong the hours before death....

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 What is a cross?

John <jhta...@iinet.net.au> Apr 06 10:11PM +0800  

This morning I was thinking of a man carrying a cross to a Roman crucifixion. I remember a clergyman telling me that what was carried was the piece of wood that was nailed to a tree, not an upright with a cross piece already nailed to it as shown in medieval paintings. This seemed reasonable because of the usual English language meaning of cross as in "I crossed the road". Besides which, an upright with a cross piece already nailed and strong enough to hold a man high enough to hold a man clear of the ground would be quite heavy. An what about the crosses on which the other two men were crucified?
Not knowing any New Testament Greek, I looked up cross in Clinton Morrison's "An Analytical Concordance to the RSV of the New Testament". I am puzzled to find that the Greek word for cross as in Mt 10.38 "..who does not take up his cross and follow me.." and in Mt 16.24 etc is stauros and the meaning given is upright pale, stake.
So what was it that Simon of Cyre'ne carried in Luke23:26 ?
 
John Taplin,
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