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Constantine the great was the one who is credited with being the first Roman Emperor to become a Christian and making the Roman empire a Christian Empire.
I've always had a problem with this 'sign in the sky' and it being a symbol for Christianity. This is one of Raphael's students version of this, notice the flying dragon in the sky and the little man in the lower right corner, odd.
Here's the story
According to legend, Constantine I adopted this Greek phrase, "ἐν τούτῳ νίκα" (in this, win) as a motto after his vision of a chi rho in the sky just before the Battle of Milvian Bridge against Maxentius on 28 October 312. The early Christian symbol consists of a monogram composed of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P),
The historian Eusebius states that Constantine was marching with his army (Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it is clearly not in the camp at Rome), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words "ἐν τούτῳ νίκα" ("In this, conquer"), often rendered in Latin as In hoc signo vinces ("in this sign, you will conquer"). At first, Constantine did not know the meaning of the apparition, but on the following night, he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he should use the sign of the cross against his enemies. Eusebius then continues to describe the Labarum, the military standard used by Constantine in his later wars against Licinius, showing the Chi-Rho sign.
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In this Conquer. But this was not a 'Holy war' these were two heathens fighting. Constantine was in a 'war' against a Roman Emperor, Maxentius, his own Brother in law, fighting for power, not a good cause.
So what do we make of everything that came out of that? Should we really believe that this 'sign in the sky' was really from G-d or was it something else?
I came across this and wanted to share with you to see what opinions or research anyone has done on it.
In a bas relief tablet found in ancient Sumaria there is a glowing cross in the sky pictured. This symbol was described by them as being what they called 'nibiru' calling it 'the planet of the crossing'. This was way before Yeshua walked the earth and Moses wrote the Torah.
It is interesting that this sign, this cross in Cuneiform meant 'divine' and later evolved into the Hebrew letter 'tav'.
See this depiction of the letter here.
This is an interesting site that speaks of the crossing, mostly pictures for those that don't like to read too much.
I've always had a problem with this 'sign in the sky' and it being a symbol for Christianity. This is one of Raphael's students version of this, notice the flying dragon in the sky and the little man in the lower right corner, odd.
Here's the story
According to legend, Constantine I adopted this Greek phrase, "ἐν τούτῳ νίκα" (in this, win) as a motto after his vision of a chi rho in the sky just before the Battle of Milvian Bridge against Maxentius on 28 October 312. The early Christian symbol consists of a monogram composed of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P),
The historian Eusebius states that Constantine was marching with his army (Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it is clearly not in the camp at Rome), when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words "ἐν τούτῳ νίκα" ("In this, conquer"), often rendered in Latin as In hoc signo vinces ("in this sign, you will conquer"). At first, Constantine did not know the meaning of the apparition, but on the following night, he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he should use the sign of the cross against his enemies. Eusebius then continues to describe the Labarum, the military standard used by Constantine in his later wars against Licinius, showing the Chi-Rho sign.
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In this Conquer. But this was not a 'Holy war' these were two heathens fighting. Constantine was in a 'war' against a Roman Emperor, Maxentius, his own Brother in law, fighting for power, not a good cause.
So what do we make of everything that came out of that? Should we really believe that this 'sign in the sky' was really from G-d or was it something else?
I came across this and wanted to share with you to see what opinions or research anyone has done on it.
In a bas relief tablet found in ancient Sumaria there is a glowing cross in the sky pictured. This symbol was described by them as being what they called 'nibiru' calling it 'the planet of the crossing'. This was way before Yeshua walked the earth and Moses wrote the Torah.
It is interesting that this sign, this cross in Cuneiform meant 'divine' and later evolved into the Hebrew letter 'tav'.
See this depiction of the letter here.
This is an interesting site that speaks of the crossing, mostly pictures for those that don't like to read too much.
