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One of these is already posted on the Word of the Day series; it's just how they come up randomly.

Iesus Hominum Salvator

1 posted on 09/14/2010 9:08:37 AM PDT by Salvation
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IESOUS HEMETEROS SOTER

Jesus our Savior. Greek title found in early Christian inscriptions.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

2 posted on 09/14/2010 9:09:37 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
It's not a faulty transliteration.

In uncial Greek script, the first three letters (iota, eta and sigma) look like IHC, but the Latin transliteration was IHS because Latin I is the equivalent of iota, H was used to transliterate eta since there was no other one-letter equivalent for the Greek eta in Latin (the sound is one letter in Greek, but a two-letter diphthong in Latin), and Latin S is the Latin transliteration for sigma.

6 posted on 09/14/2010 9:21:06 AM PDT by wideawake
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