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It is also deficient in some of the consonants most conspicuous in other languages, b, d, r, v, and z; so that this people can scarcely pronounce our speech in such a way as to be intelligible: for example, the word Christus they call Kuliss-ut-oo - suh.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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The word Christus is in dispute because the scribe wrote something else which was changed to Christians; the physical evidence reveals the change.
Barbados Underground 2009
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"You would demand that the Christus should be a good man, and the St. John blameless -- why shouldn't the Magdalene be a repentant woman?"
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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"You would demand that the Christus should be a good man, and the St. John blameless -- why shouldn't the Magdalene be a repentant woman?"
The Right of Way — Volume 06 Gilbert Parker 1897
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"You would demand that the Christus should be a good man, and the St. John blameless -- why shouldn't the Magdalene be a repentant woman?"
The Right of Way — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Above is St. John the Baptist holding the Agnus Dei, and near the top are the remains of the Latin word Christus.
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Would such a report have mentioned him by the name of "Christus" which is what Tacitus calls him.
Mythicism and Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009
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"Christus", and "Synagoga", in the Office of Holy Week probably originated at the same period, and not many centuries later we begin to find the narratives of the Passion in the Four Evangelists copied separately into books of devotion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Wayside Inn "-- Longfellow was not by nature a dramatist, and his trilogy now published under the title of" Christus, "made up of" The Divine
The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907
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It represents two hands holding a slab upon which is a crucible with a heart in it, surrounded by flames, the word 'Christus' being on the slab.
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901
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