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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2845885, member: 88829&quot;]Your comments about the Arian position are right on point, but I don&#039;t think your assessment of what was going on at Trier is necessarily correct.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think they misunderstood the issue.&nbsp; Arianism never made as much headway in the Western empire, with its Catholic Christianity, as it had in the east.&nbsp; I think the mint at Trier was intentionally taking a pro-Western anti-Arian approach to honoring the emperor from the east.&nbsp; The addition of the Alpha and Omega bracketing the Chi-Rho made it a part of Western Christian symbolism that has continued to the present even among some post-Reformation Protestants, such as Lutherans and, I believe, Anglicans.&nbsp; When it comes to symbols, misunderstandings don&#039;t get canonized like that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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