IN THE SKY ON GOOD FRIDAY !!!
I was driving so my little girl took the photo.
God is on time, every time. †
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CROSS appears in Scripture MANY times, in context of the Crucifixion and in suffering. From the Douay Rheims, directly translated from the Latin Vulgate, here are a few:
And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha." [John 19:17]
And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they forced to take up his cross." [Matthew 27:32]
And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God, and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self: if thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross." [Matthew 27:40]
"He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him." [Matthew 27:42]
Let Christ the king of Israel come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him." [Mark 15:32]
And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple." [Luke 14:27]
And Pilate wrote a title also, and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." [John 19:19]
"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen." [John 19:25]
"Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away." [John 19:31]
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made void." [1 Corinthians 1:17]
"For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness; but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God." [1 Corinthians 1:18]
"For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God: with Christ I am nailed to the cross." [Galatians 2:19]
"And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void." [Galatians 5:11]
Old Greek is the original. Not the Latin Vulgate. In fact, Old Greek is where the Latin translations come from. The "cross" is nowhere in the Old Greek. The cross was introduced by Constantine and the Latin Bibles came after Constantine introduced it, commissioned by Pope Damasus.
The Douay Rheims was translated from Greek and other languages into Latin by Saint Jerome, about 382 A.D. This was THE official bible of the Church and remains so. Not until Luther’s revolution was there a variation. St. Jerome knew far better than all of us put together, amen, alleluia!
I know. The mention of the cross however was introduced by Constantine and consequently, the Latin versions included the cross which did not come from the Greek versions.
What would Constantine have to gain by such a technicality?
Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4716: σταυρός
σταυρός, σταυροῦ, ὁ (from ἵστημι (root sta); cf. Latinstauro, English staff (see Skeat, Etymological Dictionary, under the word); Curtius, § 216; Vanicek, p. 1126);
an upright stake, especially a pointed one (Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon).
a cross;
a. the well-known instrument of most cruel and ignominious punishment, borrowed by the Greeks and Romans from the Phoenicians; to it were affixed among the Romans, down to the time of Constantine the Great, the guiltiest criminals, particularly the basest slaves, robbers, the authors and abetters of insurrections, and occasionally in the provinces, at the arbitrary pleasure of the governors, upright and peaceable men also, and even Roman citizens themselves; cf. Winers RWB, under the word Kreuzigung; Merz in Herzog edition 1 ((cf. Schaff-Herzog) also Schultze in Herzog edition 2), under the word Kreuz; Keim, iii., p. 409ff. (English translation, vi. 138; BB. DD., see under the words, Cross, Crucifixion; O. Zöckler, Das Kreuz Christi (Gütersloh, 1875); English translation, Lond. 1878; Fulda, Das Kreuz u. d. Kreuzigung (Bresl. 1878); Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii. 582ff). This horrible punishment the innocent Jesus also suffered: Matthew 27:32, 40, 42; Mark 15:21, 30, 32; Luke 23:26; John 19:17, 19, 25, 31; Colossians 2:14; Hebrews 12:2; θάνατος σταυροῦ, Philippians 2:8; τό αἷμα τοῦ σταυροῦ, blood shed on the cross; Colossians 1:20.
b. equivalent to the crucifixion which Christ underwent: Galatians 5:11 (on which see σκάνδαλον, under the end); Ephesians 2:16; with the addition of τοῦ Χριστοῦ, 1 Corinthians 1:17; the saving power of his crucifixion, Philippians 3:18 (on which see ἐχθρός, at the end); Galatians 6:14; τῷ σταυρῷ τοῦ Χριστοῦ διώκεσθαι, to encounter persecution on account of one's avowed belief in the saving efficacy of Christ's crucifixion, Galatians 6:12; ὁ λόγος ὁ τοῦ σταυροῦ, the doctrine concerning the saving power of the death on the cross endured by Christ, 1 Corinthians 1:18. The judicial usage which compelled those condemned to crucifixion themselves to carry the cross to the place of punishment (Plutarch, de sara numinis vindict. c. 9; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 56, cf. John 19:17), gave rise to the proverbial expression αἴρειν or λαμβάνειν or βαστάζειν τόν σταυρόν αὐτοῦ, which was usually used by those who, on behalf of God's cause, do not hesitate cheerfully and manfully to bear persecutions, troubles, distresses — thus recalling the fate of Christ and the spirit in which he encountered it (cf. Bleek, Synop. Erkl. der drei ersten Evangg. i, p. 439f): Matthew 10:38; Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Mark 10:21 (R L in brackets); ; Luke 9:23; Luke 14:27.