Sentences with phrase «nomen sacrum»

As far as anyone knows, out of all the Jesuses back then, only the name of one of the was so holy as to be abbreviated in sacred texts as a nomen sacrum, or sacred name.

Can't think of another Jesus whose name was so Holy that it was abbreviated with a special abbreviation known as a nomen sacrum, or sacred name.

Jesus is written as a nomen sacrum, or holy name, in the middle of the fourth line and would look to you like IC with a line over the top of those two letters.