Original sentence: Some scholars say that the New Testament accounts refer to a single upright wooden stake without transom (crossbar), what is called a crux simplex
Edited sentence: , 11th (Camb.2, above) in connection with the manner of our Lord's death, and rendered "tree" in Acts 5:30; 10:39; 13:29.21:8.2:24.3:13.505 d.7, p.7:1, 3; 8:7; 9:4, &c.And this is the meaning and usage of the word throughout the Greek classics (*3).As this latter word xulon is used for the former stauros, it shows us that the meaning of each is exactly the same.Hence the use of the word xulon (No.Homer uses the word stauros of an ordinary pole or stake, or a single piece of timber (*2).In Bullinger's Companion Bible, Appendix 162, THE CROSS AND THE CRUCIFIXION,  He makes it clear that in the Greek N.It is not like dendron, which is used of a living, or green tree, as in Matt.It never means two pieces of timber placed across one another at any angle, but always of one piece alone.Other scholars say that the New Testament accounts refer to a single upright wooden stake without transom (crossbar), what is called a crux simplex.Our English word "cross" is the translation of the Latin crux; but the Greek stauros no more means a crux [Naming a stake a 'crux simplex' is nothing more than a cover to justify the use of the word cross]than the word "stick" means a "crutch".See the Encycl.The verb stauros means to drive stakes (*1).The word stauros; which denotes and upright pale or stake, to which the criminals were nailed for execution.The word xulon, which generally denotes a piece of a dead log of wood or timber, for fuel or for any other purpose.This is preserved in our old Eng.name rood, or rod.two words are used for "the cross", on which the Lord was put to death