m****r 发帖数: 1904 | 1 you ask a very good question.I never thought of it.But i post answers from
Jehovah witness's research article, hope it'll help you.
TORTURE STAKE
An instrument such as that on which Jesus Christ met death by impalement. (Mt
27:32-40; Mr 15:21-30; Lu 23:26; Joh 19:17-19, 25) In classical Greek the word
(stau?ros?) rendered "torture stake" in the New World Translation primarily
denotes an upright stake, or pole, and there is no evidence that the writers
of the Christian Greek Scriptures used it to |
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