Citations:Jesu

English citations of Jesu

• 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark j:[1–2], folio xliij, verso:

  The begyñyng off the Goſpell of Ieſu Chriſt the ſonne off God / as yt ys written in the prophettꝭ […]

• 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 [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, ...