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Leucius Charinus wrote:

Made of Stars wrote:Why would it change?

At the moment I don't have any ideas about the motive, other than the fact that the name "Chrestian" (which means "Good" or "useful") meant that the followers may have been known internally and externally as "The Good Guys". Maybe they sought a more unique name for the "Church Business Name"?

One thing is for sure, there is certainly evidence suggesting that "Church scribes" physically altered some manuscripts in order to change "Chrestian" to "Christian". One example is the 11th century Tacitus manuscript:




χρηστιανοι (Chrestian): In 1902 Georg Andresen commented on the appearance of the first 'i' and subsequent gap in the earliest extant, 11th century, copy of the Annals in Florence, suggesting that the text had been altered, and an 'e' had originally been in the text, rather than this 'i'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_o ... Chrestians

We might have two different terms from the beginning
1.Cross and the cross followers
2. Christ and Christ followers

300 AD, or some,
Emperor Constantine has recognized the Cross as symbol of his Empire .


Eastern Roman Empire the Cross symbol

Historical sources
according to Lactantius, Flavius Valerius Constantinus was visited by a dream the night before the battle, where in he was advised "to mark the heavenly sign of God on the shields of his soldiers ... by means of a slanted letter X with the top of its head bent round, he marked Christ on their shields."[1]

Lets check ;
Here is that symbol :



Explanation we read is that is about of superimposed ,not ordinary but Greek letters: "A monogram and symbol for Christ, consisting of the superimposed Greek letters chi (Χ) and rho (Ρ),often embroidered on altar cloths and clerical vestments. Also called Chrismon, Christogram..." [2]
[chi + rho, first two letters of Greek Khrīstos, Christ.] [3]
What is most than strange
Greeks today for the Cross will say ;Σταυρός
No need to add that Macedonian and all related modern languages of today for Cross will say:


Cross -Eng.


Krs -Maced.
Krst-Bulg.
Krst-Serb.
Kriz -Croat .


And no wonder because here is the root of that word .
Krs;
X-KS;
P-ro;
X + P ~> KS + Ro ~>
Ro in between K`S ~>
K Ro S...we read Kros .
Kros or Crossed ,because Ro is present crossed at the middle of dual K`S or X
two letters

Another words connected with word the Cross in Macedonian are and this :baptism baptize
Lets compare:
Macedonian :KRST- KRSTI KRSTENJE
English :The Cross, baptism baptize
Greek :STAVROS Váptisi vaftísei
Where the root for ever will be at letters
X Ro
KRoS


Such a strange ..


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Ref:
1- Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum 44.4–6, tr. J.L. Creed,Lactantius: De Mortibus Persecutorum (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), qtd. in Lenski, "Reign of Constantine" (CC), 71.
2- American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Net links :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constanti ... Early_life

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Chi-Rho

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/view ... %2FChi-Rho