Wednesday, June 26, 2013
χρηστός is Rendered Exclusively in the Nag Hammadi treatise on the Resurrection
It is also possible that, as in other Gnostic contexts, the name "Christ" is rendered exclusively with χρηστός in Treat.
Res. (43.37; 48.19; 50.1) in order to avoid any association of the true Savior with the Creator God or with a fleshly human being [James Robinson, The Coptic Gnostic Library: A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Volume 3, p. 193]
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."