Alkaloid use of Ephedra and opium poppies. Also, coca leaves have been used by South American Indians since ancient times. Extracts from plants containing toxic alkaloids, such as aconitine and tubocurarine, were used since antiquity for poisoning arrows. Studies of alkaloids began in the 19th century. In 1804, the German chemist Friedrich Sertürner isolated from opium a "soporific principle" (), which he called "morphium" in honor of Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams; in German and some other Central-European languages, this is still the name of the drug. The term "morphine", used in English and French, was given by the French
Names of God of the Greek New Testament render "ho theos" (Greek: Ο Θεός) as God and "ho kurios" (Greek: Ο Κύριος) as "the Lord". Jesus (Iesus, Yeshua was a common alternative form of the name ("Yehoshua" - Joshua) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling "Iesous", from which comes the English spelling Jesus. "Christ" means "the anointed" in Greek (). "Khristos" is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word Messiah; while in English the old Anglo-Saxon Messiah-rendering "hæland" (healer) was practically annihilated by the Latin "Christ", some