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English citations of Jesu
1963, Irving Layton, “History as a Slice of Ham”, in Balls for a One-Armed Juggler, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart Limited, →OCLC, page 25:The Hebes, out by only one, suffered macerations and death, being closest to the truth. Ah, Jesu, jewboy worshipped in cloisters: abhorring oysters and swinemeat, they offended their gentle neighbours.
Latinate genitive of Jesus
- "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 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, ...