Looking for trouble because I stand up to an ignoramus like yourself?
Do you read ancient Greek? This was what Carus wrote as the origin of the word “Christos.”
Paul Carus: “The verb means ‘to rub,’ lightly to touch the surface of a body; ‘to bedaub.’ It is commonly used in the sense of smearing the body with oil, as the Greeks were used to doing after a bath. But the idea of ‘rubbing’ is fundamental.”
The noun Christos properly rendered is Rubbie.
Here’s what George Sarton, an historian who also read ancient Greek, said about that translation.
George Sarton: “The early part of the Septuagint, the Torah or Pentateuch, is written in a very poor Judeo-Greek; according to specialists that dialect is Egyptian rather than Palestinian. I have read only Genesis and was horrified by the language.”
“How was this permitted to happen?”
This became a standing joke book among the Jews. Only the Greeks took it seriously.
talking to yourself in a mirror?
Paul Carus: “The verb means ‘to rub,’ lightly to touch the surface of a body; ‘to bedaub.’ It is commonly used in the sense of smearing the body with oil, as the Greeks were used to doing after a bath. But the idea of ‘rubbing’ is fundamental.”
Actually he is likely citing Homer's use of the verb. that is a verb. The fact of the matter it always was associated with the placement of oil as classical greek use of the same word for its leaders and 'gods' brought forth the common thread of being selected / special - I doubt your insistence on 'rub' holds for these other examples.
The noun Christos properly rendered is Rubbie.
Are you always this stupid, or are you making a special effort today?
George Sarton:
Who was hardly a biblical scholar - a humanist who's world view skewed his readings. You seem stuck in these late 18th / early 19th century humanists idov.