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Sign of the Cross: Was It a Symbol of Redemption Before Jesus?


Martin L. Oxford
Review Special Correspondent

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JERUSALEM, Israel - Does the use of the cross as a Christian symbol date from the fourth century AD? Or, does it have a far older and richer history?


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The answer to these questions may surprise most Christians as scholars today have discovered remarkable evidence which seems to suggest that the cross-mark was a popular sign of God's deliverance, dating as far back as the days of Moses.
 

 


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Dating to the early part of the first century, the sign of the cross marks the entrance to a Christian catacomb on the Mount of Olives.

 


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Dating from the year 79 A.D., an alter, and above it a cross-mark, was discovered at a Christian worship site in the Roman city of Herculaneum.

 


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