This one who God sent to redeem us was called in the Hebrew tongue, the Messiah: In Greek he was called the Christ. Thus the church used the first two Greek letters in the word Christos for the Chi Rho, a monogram for the Savior who would bring in the rule of God. This Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
Likewise, early Christians took the first three letters in our Lord’s given name, Jesus, to form the monogram of IHS or IHC.
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