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".