Jesus, the personified of Goodness.

Some Christians will say that Chrestos and Christos are the same word, and therefore meaning the same. However, they would be wrong, very wrong.  They are similar sounding words, one has to agree, but vastly different in meaning.  So much so, that Chrestian counterfeiters started to erase the “eta” to produce an “iota” in available biblical manuscripts.  Not all Chrestians turned to Christians at the same time, we have Christians in the 5th or 6th-century, and we still had Chrestians in the 11th-century Annals of Florence.  So we can say it was a slow process!In one of the ancient tombs in the Catacombs of Rome there is a peculiar device which, to those who are able to comprehend its purport, is of much significance. It is the figure of an anchor, the upper part of which resembles the ansate cross (Ankh, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for life.), with the figures of two fishes, one on each side. It also bears the inscription in Greek characters IHΣOTΣ XPEΣTOΣ—Iêsous Chrestos, Jesus the Good. Mr. Hargrave Jennings has given copies of the device in his treatise on the Rosicrucians, representing it in one place as a Gnostic amulet and in another as an early Christian symbol. Probably it belongs to the period when the Gnosis and the Church had not become formally separate from each other.

The inscription is significant as indicating the original designation of the acknowledged founder of the new faith. There are many evidences to corroborate this statement. The historian Suetonius, Suetonius, in his Lives of the Twelve Caesars, makes mention of certain disturbances among the Jews at Rome, and remarks that they were “led by one Chrestus.” Syllurgios, another old writer, derives the title of the new sectaries from that name, and so calls them Xpnotiavói, Chrêstianoi. Justin Martyr (the Samaritan), who lived at Sichem or Shechem in Samaria, in the Second Century, declares that he and his fellow-recusants were called Xpσtivói, or Chrêstiani, and admits in so many words that the appellation was from the term Xpηστóς—Chrêstos. “From the name imputed to us as a crime,” says he, “we are the χρηστότητόι”—Chrêstotatoi, the very good. Parallel to this, Julian, the Emperor, also styled John the Baptist, Xpηστóς Iwáννns-Chrêstos Iôannês.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Metaphysical_Magazine/S1pBWoc83OcC?q=Justin+Martyr,+who+lived+at+Sichem+or+Shechem+in+Samaria,+in+the+Second+Century&gbpv=1#f=false.

What do you say on part or all of the OP?

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