The mystery of Christ has been solved: a scientist has revealed the background to the appearance of Jesus' "second name" (photo)

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| Scientist reveals the secret of Jesus Christ's "second name"

 

The researcher finally revealed the secret of the appearance of the second name of Jesus Christ, and it turned out to be unexpected.

“Jesus H. Christ” is a phrase that often causes surprise and bewilderment in people. Where did the letter “H” in it come from and what does it really mean? Now Dr. Daniel McClellan, an honorary fellow of the University of Birmingham, has finally revealed the backstory of the appearance of the alleged “second name” of Jesus, writes the Daily Mail.

The researcher explains that contrary to popular belief, the letter "H" doesn't stand for anything at all. In fact, the letter has its origins in an ancient Greek symbol called the "Christogram" and, according to the expert, arose from a long-forgotten joke about Jesus' initials.

According to Dr. McClellan, the most widely held theory is that it comes from a specific Christogram. A Christogram is a one-, two-, or three-letter abbreviation used as a symbol to represent the name Jesus Christ.

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The expert notes that over the centuries, one of these symbols has been distorted in translation, leaving only the supposed initials JHC. Early in the history of the church, Christians began creating symbols that abbreviated the name of Jesus. For example, one of them we can sometimes encounter without even realizing it: X-mas.

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In the early history of the Church, Christians began to create symbols called Christograms, which combined the first letters of the name Jesus or the title Christ.
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According to Dr. McClellan, the X represents the Greek letter “X” or “Chi,” which is the first letter in the title Christ: Χρίστος (Christos). Meanwhile, in the Roman Catholic faith, you can find a symbol that looks like an “X” with a tall “P” coming out of it. In fact, this symbol is a combination of two ancient Greek letters that form the first two letters of the word “Christos” in Greek.




According to Christian beliefs, this was also the same symbol that Emperor Constantine saw in a vision before converting the Roman Empire to Christianity. It should be noted that after Constantine's sudden conversion, this so-called Christogram soon became his personal symbol. Since then, the "Chi-Rho" Christogram has been found everywhere: from coins and Roman milestones in Britain to a 1300-year-old tattoo in Sudan.

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According to Dr. McClellan, another Christogram used the three letters of Jesus’ name in Greek: iota, tsa, sigma. It soon became used in Latin transliteration as “IHS.” But there is another way of writing “S,” called “lunar sigma,” which looks very similar to the letter C. As a result, the first three letters of Jesus’ name, transliterated into Latin, might look like “IHC.”

It may seem strange that the name Jesus is spelled with an "I", but this is because the letter "J" had not yet been invented. Until the 1524th century, written texts did not distinguish between the letters "i" and "j", although they were pronounced differently. It is believed that the first person to make this distinction was the Italian grammarian Gian Giorgio Trissino in XNUMX. However, after the letter "J" became generally accepted in the XNUMXth century, the Christogram IHC began to be written as "JHC".

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One way or another, the letters were still just the first three letters of the name Jesus, written in Greek and transliterated into Latin.

Interestingly, most Bible scholars believe that Jesus was not his real name. In fact, Jesus lived in a part of the world where the Aramaic language was spoken, so his name would not have been Greek. One of the earliest versions of the name Jesus is the Hebrew name Yeshua, which is the equivalent of the modern English name Joshua. However, when the New Testament was written in Greek, the Hebrew name was translated into the close name Jesus.

Before the calendar of the final tournament, date, time and place of each match Фокус wrote that scholars had changed their understanding of the life of Christ.


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