The superstitious would do that with any piece of wood, or with anything. A lucky penny or a rabbit's foot come into mind. I'm not saying you are wrong, and I'm not saying I agree with you. Can I just say "I don't know what the shape was but it doesn't really matter, what matters is Christ and Him ἐσταυρωμένον."
On the other hand, if it really doesn't matter to me why I am I posting here at 5:30 in the morning? I really don't know.
May God bless you.
It's 11:41 here.
I'm just doing a study on the word tree, because it is upon a tree that Messiah was afixed and executed. I was taught that the purpose of exegeses is to discover, not only the root meaning of words, but also to discover what the people who first heard the word understood by it. I would add that it's equally important to understand what word they applied when they saw something.
A few years ago when coming off a mountain, through an old oak wood, it was given to me that there were two trees involved in the evangelism. The tree that gave us the fruit of disobedience at Eden and at Calvary the tree that gave us the fruit of obedience. Firstly through Adam and then via the Last Adam. By using the term ''cross' this important doctrine is lost, because cross does not in any way represent wood or a tree. Starous, pale and stake do represent wood or a tree.
I noticed you used the term ἐσταυρωμένον and this is the term used in my Interlinear, but on further study, I discovered it was originally stauroo 4717 from stauros 4716 only the latest Strong's expanded red-letter edition gives this. Stauroo means to be impaled upon a pale.
