Christ

Christ

Christ (/kraɪst/) (ancient Greek: Χριστός, Christós, meaning 'anointed') is a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ), the Messiah, and is used as a title for Jesus in the New Testament.

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    He weren’t no saint—but at Jedgment
    I’d run my chance with Jim,
    ‘Longside of some pious gentlemen
    That wouldn’t shook hands with him.
    He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,—
    And went for it, thar an’ then:
    And Christ ain’t a-goin’ to be too hard
    On a man that died for me.
    John Milton Hay (1838–1905)

    There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
    Bible: New Testament Galatians 3:28.

    This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse
    Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)