It would be useful to know what Philip's "Chrism" represented.MrMacSon wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 1:15 am
I wonder if those 'steps' outline the development of Chrestian +/- focus on the chrism ( a focus for some at least)
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101 The Chrism is made lord over the Baptism. The chrism is superior' to baptism, for it is from the word "chrism"' that we have been called Christians. And (he) was called the XS because of the Chrism. For the Father anointed the Son, yet the Son anointed the Apostles, yet the Apostles anointed us.
biblehub on Strongs on chrio | χρίω has
For chraomai Strongs has
- Probably akin to chraomai through the idea of contact
https://biblehub.com/strongs/greek/5548.htm
- use, entreat
... give an oracle, "graze" touch slightly), light upon, etc.,
Compare chrao,a
https://biblehub.com/strongs/greek/5530.htm
a chraó ►
(And we know Coptic developed in the first two centuries of the Common Era)
- Forms and Transliterations
https://biblehub.com/strongs/greek/5531.htm
- χρησον χρῆσόν | chreson chrêsón chrēson ...
BCE
Homer's use of "chriso" ....
Christian theology has chosen and decreed that the name Christos
should be taken as derived from [chrio, chriso], "anointed with
scented unguents or oil." But this word has several significances.
It is used by Homer as applied to the rubbing with oil of the body
after bathing (Il. 23, 186; also in Od., 4, 252). Yet the word
Christes means rather a white-washer, while the word Chrestes
means priest and prophet, a term which on the surface may appear
to be far more applicable to Jesus, than that of the "Anointed,"
since, he never was anointed, either as king or priest.
470 BCE
Aeschylus (Cho. 901) we read of pythochresta
the "oracles delivered by a Pythian God"
460 BCE
Pindar (pp. 4-10) The words [chresen oikistera]
mean "the oracle proclaimed him the colonizer."
In this case the genius of the Greek language permits
that the man so proclaimed should be called Chrestos.
Hence this term was applied to every Disciple recognized by a Master,
as also to every good man.
420 BCE
Euripides (Ion. 1320) (Eurip. Ion, 1218)
Pythochrestos is the nominative singular
of an adjective derived from chrao .
420 BCE
Herodotus - The word [chreon] is explained by Herodotus (7,11,7,)
as that which an oracle declares, and See also Vide Herodotus, 7, 215; 5, 108;
XXX BCE
Pagan classics expressed more than one idea
by the verb [chraomai] "consulting an oracle";
for it also means "fated," doomed by an oracle,
in the sense of a sacrificial victim to its decree, or --
"to the WORD"; as chresterion is not only "the seat of an oracle"
but also "an offering to, or for, the oracle.'' (18)
Chrestes is one who expounds or explains oracles,
"a prophet, a soothsayer;" (19) and
chresterios is one who belongs to, or is in the service of,
an oracle, a god, or a "Master" (20);
010 CE
Philo Judaeus speaks of theochrestos "God-declared,"
or one who is declared by god, and of
logia theochresta "sayings delivered by God" --
which proves that he wrote at a time
when neither Christians nor Chrestians were yet known
under these names
http://mountainman.com.au/essenes/chres ... ristos.htm