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Citations:Jesu

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English citations of Jesu

Latinate genitive of Jesus

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"of Jesu" repeatedly as a genitive with "Jesus" as nominative, but work also uses "of Jesus"
  • 1844, Miles Coverdale, Writings and Translations of Myles Coverdale, chapter II, page 315:
    [] a disciple of Jesu, [] he [Pilate] granted him the body of Jesu, and commanded it to be given him. Joseph had brought a white linen cloth, and took down the body of Jesu, and wrapt it in the fair linen cloth. [] So taking the body of Jesu, they wound it with clothes, [] And by the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre. There Joseph laid Jesus in his own new sepulchre, [] they laid Jesus into it; []
bare "Jesu" used consistently as a genitive
  • 1911, C. H. A. Bjerregaard, "The Inner Life And Jesus, The Christ: VII. Jesu Consciousness and his Theosophy" The Word, volume 13:
    page 147: In the article on the Messiah idea I said that however vague it was, the Messiah Idea did not fit into the narrow frame of Jesu life as that is told in the gospels.
    page 150: I will even suggest that Jesus is a Brahmin, reincarnated. I mean to say that Jesu life would fit in admirably as a continuation of a Brahmin's life, []
    page 159: And Jesu gospel was also a “good will,” as the angels sang at the time of his birth; and his life was one of social service. You see readily the Oriental family likeness, and Jesus formulated his theosophy, as his historian has recorded it, ...