Charles 不在圣经中——其词根意为“男人”

Charles is not in the Bible. It comes through the Latin Carolus from the Germanic Karl, a word that meant man — and, in its later medieval sense, a free man rather than a serf. Charlotte, Caroline and Carla are all the same word. What is different about Charles is the company it has kept: it is one of the great preachers’ names. What does the name Charles mean? Man. Not king, not warrior, not noble — though the name…