Alright, thank you for bringing the discussion back to a focus on what you consider to be more likely here.It is true that I consider it more likely that a person named Paulos/Paulus, being a Roman name, writing to people in a Roman veteran colony, Corinth, being composed mostly of Roman military veterans and their families, would find the abbreviation IC XC for Iulius the Xrhstos instantly recognizable to his audience without the need to elaborate, as opposed to some unknown Jewish guy named Ihsous the Xristos, being a total nonsense phrase to a Roman and Greek readership.
Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:52 pm