Anointed, in particular, the first two kings, Saul and David. In addition the word appears as an appellation of the Israelite king in the acclamation and supplication of the Psalms. It must also be noted that, for a Greek, Χριστός referring to a person would have been meaningless. Such a usage will have communicated something like ‘[he] who has been smeared’, but this never occurs in a personal sense. The neutral Χριστόν meant ‘rubbing ointment’, and νεόχριστος, ‘newly plastered’.1 The title Χριστός