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From: dennis@cadkey.com (Dennis Paul Himes)
Subject: Re: Jesus H. Christ !!!
Message-ID: <1995Jun27.023558.25469@cadkey.com>
Organization: Cadkey, Inc.
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 02:35:58 GMT
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In article <3sjsoc$5tj@gordon.enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Andrew Lloyd (atlloyd@acer.gen.tcd.ie) writes:
>>Wrong wrong nearly right.  I had believed that IHS stands for 
>>In Hoc Signo 
>>(latin for: by this sign <the cross> "redemption" (understood)).
>>But my Chamber's he say:
>>IHC IHS for the greek capitals IHC (C a form of sigma) first two
>>and last letters of Iesous, often misread as Jesus Hominem Salvator
>>Jesus saviour of men.
>
>I looked up in the encyclopedia I have at home, Svensk Uppslagsbok,
>from the fifties. The sole thing it said under IHS was "In hoc signo
>vince".

     I was taught that it stood for "In hoc signo vinces," from
Constantine's vision.  The Emperor Constantine had a vision of the cross
with the quoted text which was influential in his decision to make
Christianity the official religion of the empire.

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                Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@cadkey.com
 
Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99
