12-30-2006, 02:15 PM
Jona wrote in his book that the chi-rho sign that has become so very much Christian, may have originated as a sign of the sun ( an x with a vertical beam added) plus a sign of the moon added to that elongated vertical beam, to arrive at the chi-rho. I had not heard that before, as I had not heard before that Constantine had seen a vision of Apollo before he had seen a vision before the battle of the Milvian bridge. What's the earliest occurrance of the chi-rho as a definate Christian symbol? Constantine?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)