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The symbolism even becomes stronger if we assume the Judas substitution was originally part of the narrative. Crucifying “Jew” on something that resembled the “sign” of the Tenth Legion. It would be like Hitler writing a story about a certain Judas who got trapped inside his own oven while attempting spring cleaning and died.
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The question still remains how this electric chair was turned into a positive symbol
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How about both?
A unicode Greek text is available here. Unfortunately this is not the best formatted unicode Greek text (adds too many paragraph marks, which should only appear after a full stop ".") I have dealt with from the khazarzar site. Hopefully you meant 'Weekly worship of the Christians' so this is what I come up with:
The secret to creating these tables is to copy and paste a section of an English Translation (available everywhere on the internet) into the right side cell of a two column table, say in MS Word. Add a paragraph break after each sentence (after the period), effectively making each ET sentence a paragraph. Next I used one of the footnotes in the CCEL version of the ET to identify a snippet of Greek text from the unicode file. Be aware that the unicode text may not capitalize words the same way as the CCEL ANF translation. Once you find it in the Greek text, you know you are in the neighborhood. Then, see if you can identify a characteristic word or phrase in the Greek text preceeding the neighborhood passage above that seems to correspond to a certain word or phrase in the beginning of the section of the ET. Figure this might be the start of your section, and copy a segment of the Greek text starting right after the previous full stop to a length a little longer than the corresponding ET (using the same font for both columns, they usually are close to the same length). Delete all paragraph marks except those after a full stop. The Greek text will have all sorts of punctuation that is different than English, but a Greek full stop equates with an English period. Now you have a table with two columns and one row, the left side with the greek text all broken into paragraphs corresponding to full stops, and the right with the ET broken down into sentence paragraphs. you should already see parallels especially if you have a Greek-English lexicon hanging about. Carefully compare each sentence to one another, and fine tune as necessary (you can't be sure that the translator followed the Greek punctuation exactly or even the order of clauses). Add rows for each sentence identified and copy/paste the Greek & ET into that new row. Proceed until you are done. DCH |
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Apparently the legion has set up its own web page recently
http://www.legionten.org/Studies/LXF...XFstudies.html |
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Here is the best recreation I found of the ensign. Notice the 'X' under the eagle: |
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Eusebius calls the Cross “a trophy of the Saviour's passion.”. When Constantine looks up in the sky he sees a military ensign. Politicians are rarely creative types. Constantine adopted a pre-existent understanding of the stauros as semeion
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Eusebius tells us that when the trophe “had appeared in the sky, and [those around Constantine] urged him to make himself a copy of this sign [Greek: semeion]”*
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The identification of the cross as trophe is already present in Origen:
'The cross of Christ,' he says, 'is a trophy against Satan. This is why,' Origen adds, 'Paul says, "May I", who have known |
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And Tertullian`s Apology:
But you also worship victories, for in your trophies the cross is the heart of the trophy. And Against Marcion Book Four in the discussion of the Legion story (which has been often connected to the tenth legion with its swine symbol) You (Marcion) suppose that He is predicted as a military and armed warrior, instead of one who in a figurative and allegorical sense was to wage a spiritual warfare against spiritual enemies, in spiritual campaigns, and with spiritual weapons: come now, when in one man alone you discover a multitude of demons calling itself Legion, of course comprised of spirits, you should learn that Christ also must be understood to be an exterminator of spiritual foes, who wields spiritual arms and fights in spiritual strife; and that it was none other than He, who now had to contend with even a legion of demons. Therefore it is of such a war as this that the Psalm may evidently have spoken: "The Lord is strong, The Lord is mighty in battle." For with the last enemy death did He fight, and through the trophy of the cross He triumphed. |
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