From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!rhm
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: re: X in Xmas - (nf)
Article-I.D.: alice.1401
Posted: Sun Jan 16 03:32:38 1983
Received: Tue Jan 18 19:00:54 1983
References: bronze.390


The relevant Greek words behind the Greek "ichthus" acronym are:

iesos
christos
theou
uios
soter

with the meaninng "Jesus Christ, son of God, saviour" as Randal Schwartz
reported.

It's a bit messier than that because Iesos is a Hellenized form of
Joshua and Christ isn't exactly a name, it's an adjective meaning
"anointed".