I'll violate the necro-posting rule because this post fits with the prior discussion and I don't feel like re-capping the whole damn thing.
http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/ch...stians.htm
An interesting writing from the middle 5th century AD in Dalmatia.
https://plus.google.com/+JohnBartram/posts/4GVbzMyQK4Z
Hmm.... well Dalmatia was a long way from Rome and things were quickly going to shit in the 5th century. As the Marines say, "there's always one poor dumb son of a bitch who doesn't get the word."
http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/ch...stians.htm
Quote:When one investigates the earliest explicit references to "Christian" in the earliest sources of the common era, one comes away empty handed. The earliest evidence is dominated by the occurrence of the term "Chrestian", as is tabulated below. In the Greek language the word Christian is χριστιανος, while the word Chrestian is χρηστιανος. In the Greek manuscript sources which are presented below, the eta (η) invariably occurs instead of the iota (ι).
An interesting writing from the middle 5th century AD in Dalmatia.
https://plus.google.com/+JohnBartram/posts/4GVbzMyQK4Z
Quote:The inscription ordains the payment of a fine to the church chest if another body is placed in that tomb:
HIC REQVIESCIT IN PACE DVION ANCILLA BA
LENTE SE SPONSA DEXTRI DEPOSITA EST III
IDVS SEPTB CONSVLATV DN THEODOSIO
AVG XIII ET VALENTINIANO AG BES CC SS ADIV
RO PER DEVM ET PER LEGES CRESTEANOR
VT QVICVMQVE EXTRANEVS VOLVERIT AL
TERVM CORPVS PONERE VOLVERIT DET
ECLESIE CATOLICE SAL AVR III
- Cemetery of Salona in Dalmatia (430 CE).
Adjuro per Deum et per leges crestianorum - I charge by God and by the law of the Chrestians...that he who dares to place there another body pay Ecclesiae Catholicae Salonitanae aureos III." (three gold pieces).
Hmm.... well Dalmatia was a long way from Rome and things were quickly going to shit in the 5th century. As the Marines say, "there's always one poor dumb son of a bitch who doesn't get the word."
