Not to go all Easter on you this Christmas night, but I just learned something interesting...

in til •  2 years ago 

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You already know the sign over His head on the cross, prepped by the Romans to explain the charges, had them in Latin, Hebrew and Greek, so that everyone who was passing by on the Damascus road could read them. Later paintings have the initials of the Latin part, INRI. It stands for "Iesu Nazarene Rex Iudea". Jesus of Nazareth, (who called Himself) King of the Jews.

But the sign didn't abbreviate anything. It was a legal document. So it must have been a BIG sign, to have that written out in Latin, AND Hebrew, AND Greek, and visible from fifty yards or more.

Here is what the sign said in Hebrew --

"Yeshua Ha'Nazarei W'Melech Ha'Yehudim"

It means the Same thing; Jesus the Nazarene (who calls himself) King of the Jews.

The Latin was abbreviated in later artwork to "INRI". The Hebrew abbreviation?

IT MADE THE TETRAGRAMMATON, the unspeakable name of God.

Y H W H.

So it said on His sign, the one that was meant to identify his crime and condemn Him to death, that HE WAS GOD.

Those rabbis must have been going NUTS.

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