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O apêndice da Tradução Interlinear do Reino diz, a respeito de Mateus 27:40, que “There is no evidence that the Greek word stau·rosʹ here meant a cross such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before Christ”, e prossegue dizendo que os escritores do Novo Testamento usaram a palavra “to mean the same thing as in the classical Greek, namely, a simple stake, or pale, without a crossbeam of any kind at any angle. There is no proof to the contrary.” O léxico clássico de referência, o Liddell, Scott e Jones, dá como segundo sentido de σταυρός “cross, as the instrument of crucifixion”, cita Mateus 27:40 entre as passagens desse sentido e registra que Luciano descreve o formato como a letra grega T.

Claim ID claim-bible-torture-stake-lsjConcerns 1985Declaração explícita
Declaração explícita · 1985 Verificado

O apêndice da Tradução Interlinear do Reino diz, a respeito de Mateus 27:40, que “There is no evidence that the Greek word stau·rosʹ here meant a cross such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before Christ”, e prossegue dizendo que os escritores do Novo Testamento usaram a palavra “to mean the same thing as in the classical Greek, namely, a simple stake, or pale, without a crossbeam of any kind at any angle. There is no proof to the contrary.” O léxico clássico de referência, o Liddell, Scott e Jones, dá como segundo sentido de σταυρός “cross, as the instrument of crucifixion”, cita Mateus 27:40 entre as passagens desse sentido e registra que Luciano descreve o formato como a letra grega T. The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, 1985A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell, Scott and Jones), 1940New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), 2013

A posição da organização ou explicação posterior: O apêndice da organização baseia seu argumento no sentido clássico da palavra e em W. E. Vine, Hermann Fulda (1878) e Paul Wilhelm Schmidt (1904); a atual nota de estudo de Mateus 20:19 repete que, no grego clássico, o verbo significava “to fence with pales, to form a stockade, or palisade”.

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Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, “Appendix 3C: “Torture Stake””

1985 · pp.1149-1151 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“There is no evidence that the Greek word stau·rosʹ here meant a cross such as the pagans used as a religious symbol for many centuries before Christ. … The inspired writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures wrote in the common (koi·neʹ) Greek and used the word stau·rosʹ to mean the same thing as in the classical Greek, namely, a simple stake, or pale, without a crossbeam of any kind at any angle. There is no proof to the contrary.”

The organisation's appendix on the cross. It cites W. E. Vine's Expository Dictionary, Lewis and Short's Latin dictionary, Hermann Fulda (1878), Paul Wilhelm Schmidt (1904) and an illustration of the crux simplex taken from Justus Lipsius, De cruce libri tres (Antwerp, 1629, p. 19).

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. Appendix opened in full on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026; page markers 1149, 1150 and 1151 read from the page-number spans. I have not opened Vine, Fulda, Schmidt or Lipsius to check those citations against the printed originals.

Corroborado por. src-nwtv-lsj-stauros

Notes. The appendix concludes: 'Evidence is, therefore, completely lacking that Jesus Christ was crucified on two pieces of timber placed at right angles.'

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-nwtv-int-app3c

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A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell, Scott and Jones), “σταυρός”

1940 · entry σταυρός · Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, revised by Sir Henry Stuart Jones · Clarendon Press, Oxford; digital text hosted by the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University

“σταυρός, ὁ, A. upright pale or stake … of piles driven in to serve as a foundation, Hdt.5.16, Th.7.25. II. cross, as the instrument of crucifixion, D.S.2.18, Ev.Matt. 27.40, Plu.2.554a … its form was represented by the Greek letter T, Luc. Jud.Voc. 12. b. pale for impaling a corpse, Plu. Art. 17.”

The standard classical Greek lexicon gives both senses. Its second sense is 'cross, as the instrument of crucifixion', and among the passages it cites for that sense is Matthew 27:40 — the very verse the Kingdom Interlinear appendix uses to argue the opposite. It also records Lucian describing the shape of the σταυρός as the letter T.

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. The Perseus entry page was opened on 19 September 2026 and the entry text extracted and read directly from the page HTML. I did not consult a printed copy of LSJ, so no page number of the printed lexicon is recorded.

Procedência da digitalização. Perseus Digital Library's digitisation of the 1940 ninth edition; the page itself carries the imprint 'Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.'

Notes. The Kingdom Interlinear's own parousia appendix (3B) cites Liddell and Scott approvingly; the same lexicon flatly contradicts its stauros appendix.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-nwtv-lsj-stauros

Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), “Study note on Matthew 20:19, 'executed on a stake'”

2013 · study note, Matthew 20:19 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“This is the first of over 40 occurrences of the Greek verb stau·roʹo in the Christian Greek Scriptures. This is the verb for the Greek noun stau·rosʹ, rendered “torture stake.” … In classical Greek, it meant “to fence with pales, to form a stockade, or palisade.””

The current study note, which rests the case on the classical rather than the koine sense of the verb.

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Nota de procedência e verificação

Nota de confiança. Study note read on the nwtsty Matthew chapter 20 page on wol.jw.org, 19 September 2026.

Corroborado por. src-nwtv-int-app3c

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-nwtv-nwtsty-note-matt-20-19

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