“scroll,” is a diminutive of biblos, the regular Greek word for “book”; see Arndt and Gingrich 1957: 140). Though the word is found in Dan 9:2 and 1 Macc 12:9 referring to the sacred scriptures of the Jews, it is basically a Christian usage found first in 2 Clem 14:2 (second century A.D.?) and eventually becoming widely employed as the standard designation of the sacred scriptures of the Christian church (A. Stewart 1898: 286). When the term passed from Greek to Latin, it also passed from a neuter