(09-19-2019, 01:08 AM)grympy Wrote:
Min, please forgive if I've misremembered this: I remember clearly reading perhaps 40 years ago .That the term' "Chrestian' predates christianity by at least a century. That the original LATIN meaning (as distinct from the Greek 'Christos' ) was simply ' good man'
I don't know if this helps ... its Chrestus, not Chrestians though ... see high lighted ....
Quote:The first mentions that Claudius “banished the Jews from Rome, since they had made a commotion because of Chrestus.”[2] "Chrestus," a common name meaning “good,” was used by both slaves and free people and occurring more than 80 times in Latin inscriptions.[3] There is nothing other than similarity in spelling to suggest that there is any relationship between Chrestus and Christ
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Suetonius