something truly incredible has just been discovered a famous letter by the Roman Aurelius lenus described Jesus Christ in great detail he was an eyewitness to Jesus knew him and sent letters to Caesar in Rome many times because they had to report to Caesar let's take a look at his description of Jesus Christ and trust me you're not going to want to miss what I reveal at the end of this video but before we get to that make sure that you take a moment to subscribe so so we can make God the biggest channel in the
world and so that you can say that you were here before 100K now let's get back to it many artworks and paintings around the world depict Jesus as a white man however the most reproduced image of Jesus of all time comes from another period it is one of solon's light-eyed liir head of Christ from 1940 solman a former commercial artist who created art for advertising camp campaigns successfully marketed this picture worldwide through solon's Partnerships with two Christian publishing companies one Protestant and one Catholic the head of Christ was included on everything from prayer cards distained
Glass Four oil paintings calendars himels and nightlights solon's painting culminates a long tradition of white Europeans creating and disseminating pictures of Christ made in their own image but there's something really interesting about Jesus Christ the historical Jesus likely had the brown eyes and skin of other first century Jews From Galilee a region in biblical Israel however no one knows exactly what Jesus looked like there are no known images of Jesus from his lifetime and while the Old Testament Kings Saul and David are explicitly described as tall and handsome in the Bible there is little indication
of Jesus's appearance in the old or New Testaments even these texts are contradictory the Old Testament prophet Isaiah says that the coming savior had no beauty or Majesty while the book of Psalms claims he was fairer than the children of men with Fair referring to physical Beauty and this is where the famous letter by the Roman aelia lentulus comes into play which describes Jesus Christ in great detail we have numerous eyewitness accounts and they left letters Pontius pilot regularly wrote to Rome to Caesar we know that Pontius pilot was the governor of the Holy Land
of Israel Palestine at that time during the years that Jesus was ministering there pilate could often listen to him from his Portico we also have the letter of the high priest gel who was the Apostle Paul's teacher high priest galel believed in Jesus Christ after Christ's resurrection and his letter describing Jesus Christ is in the Library of Congress in Washington DC the only only physical description of Jesus that does exist is from a copy of a letter from the Roman Consul lentulus to the Roman Emperor Tiberius discovered in a monastery with copies of other ancient
documents according to the copy the original letter dated to the 12th year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius we have historical verification that a Roman Consul named lentulus was in Judea at the time of Jesus's trial and crucifixion his influential family is mentioned by Jewish historian Josephus in the book Antiquities of the Jews however Scholars cannot agree on the authenticity of the letter lentulus letter was an official report to Emperor Tiberius he describes Jesus as having a noble and Lively face with fair and slightly wavy hair black and strongly curving eyebrows intense penetrating blue eyes
and an expression of wondrous Grace his nose is rather long his beard is almost blonde although not very long his hair is quite long and has never seen a Paras isus his neck is slightly inclined so that he never appears to be bitter or arrogant his tanned face is the color of ripe corn and well proportioned it gives the impression of gravity and wisdom sweetness and goodness and is completely lacking in any sign of anger this is what lentulus a Roman official in the province of Judea during the time of tiberious Caesar upon seeing Christ
and noting his wonderful works his preaching his endless Miracles and other amazing things about him wrote to the Roman senate there has appeared in these times and still is a man of great power named Jesus Christ who is called by the Gentiles the Prophet of Truth whom his disciples call the son of God he raises to dead and heals diseases a man of middling height and comely appearance with a reverend countenance that inspires both love and fear he has hair the Hue of an unripe hazelnut smooth almost down to his ears but from the ears
in curling locks somewhat darker and more shining waving over his shoulders he has a parting in the middle of his head according to the fashion of the nazarin a brow smooth and very calm with a face without wrinkle or blemish Made Beautiful by a moderate color there is no fall to be found in his nose and mouth he has a full beard the color of his hair not long but a little fed at the chin he has an expression that is simple and mature with gray Clear Eyes in rebuke he is terrible in admonition kind
and lovable cheerful yet maintaining gravity sometimes he has wept but never laughed in stature he is tall and straight with Fair hands and arms in conversation he is grave reserved and modest so that he was right rightly called by the prophet Farah than the children of men this description follows traditional portraits closely and was likely written in the presence of one the Greeks also had similar detailed descriptions of the Apostles and the Virgin just as they did of the heroes of Troy but guess what we can take the description from lel's letter and combine it
with the information gathered from the figure on the Shroud of Turin to complete the physical description of Christ Professor Giovani judika cordiglia a shroud of turine scholar used his experience as a doctor in University professor of forensic medicine to interpret the data collected from the Shroud he wrote the man who was wrapped in the Shroud was a man of great Beauty and uncommon stature he was about 1 M and 80 cm tall with a perfectly proportioned physique Li and harmonious he was a standard type in the most literal sense of the phrase although the cloth
has suffered much damage we can see that his face was very soft and gentle rather long with a broad straight forehead the nose is straight and turned slightly downwards the cheeks are large and slightly protruding from all the anthropometric calculations so far made it seems that Christ was physically in far better shape than the average man through a complicated process of elaborating his facial data I can conclude that his cranial capacity was 15 75 CCC which would Place him in the megal category with a cranial capacity coefficient of 95 indicating that the weight of his
brain was 1,492 G this is far greater than average suggesting a person of extraordinary genius now let's take a look at what others thought about Jesus's appearance the church fathers of the 2 Century Justin Marta and Oregon point to Isaiah 5 3 to argue that Jesus's appearance was unremarkable he has no form nor Glory nor Beauty when we beheld him but his appearance was without honor and inferior to that of the sons of men on the other hand Oregon and others refer to Psalm 45 to suggest that Jesus was the most handsome of men this
might imply that people saw Jesus differently based on their spiritual response to him St Augustine proposed that everyone has their own image of Jesus he wrote the physical face of the Lord is pictured with infinite variety by countless imaginations though whatever it was like he certainly had only one regarding our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ it is not at all relevant to our Salvation what our imaginations picture him like what does matter is that we think of him as a man the fourth Century Bishop sirel of Jerusalem added the Savior comes in various forms
to each person according to need to those who lack Joy he becomes a vine to those who wish to enter he's a door for those who must offer prayers he's a mediating high priest to those in sin he becomes a sheep to be sacrificed on their behalf he becomes all things to all people remaining in his own nature what he is by remaining so and possessing the true and unchanging Dignity of sunship as the best of Physicians and caring teachers he adapts himself to our in infirmities interestingly most of the early depictions of Jesus are
of a youthful Apollo likee deity however after the Roman emperor Constantine protected Christianity as an approved religion in the 4th Century the images of Christ changed dramatically and almost exclusively to the bearded Jesus Christ did you know that the first portraits of Christ believed to be authoritative likenesses were thought to be self-portraits these were considered miraculous images not made by human hands or aerop poos this belief originated in the 7th Century ad based on a legend that Christ healed king abgar of edisa in modern day era turkey through a miraculous image of his face now
known as the mandelian a similar Legend adopted by Western Christianity between the 11th and 14th centuries recounts how before his death by crucifixion Christ left an impression of his his face on the veil of Saint Veronica an image known as the volto Santo or holy face these two images along with other similar relics have formed the bases of iconic Traditions about the true image of Christ from the perspective of art history these artifacts reinforced an already standardized image of a bearded Christ with shoulder length dark hair in the Renaissance European artists began to combine the
icon and the portrait making Christ in their own likeness this happened for various reasons from identifying with the human suffering of Christ to commenting on one's own creative power for example the 15th century Sicilian painter Antonello DSA painted small pictures of the suffering Christ formatted exactly like as portraits of regular people with a subject position between effective parapet and a plain black background and signed Antonello darina painted me similarly the 16th century German artist Albert Jura blurred the line between the holy face and his own image in a famous self-portrait from 1500 in this he
posed frontally like an icon with his beard and luxuriant shoulder length hair recalling Christ the ad monogram could stand equally for Albert Dura or anad domini in the year of Our Lord this phenomenon was not restricted to yor Europe there are 16th and 17th century pictures of Jesus with for example Ethiopian and Indian figures however in Europe the image of a light-skinned European Christ began to influence other parts of the world through European trade and colonization for example the Italian painter Andrea manna's Adoration of the Magi from 1505 features three distinct Magi who according to
one contemporary tradition came from Africa the Middle East and Asia they present expensive objects of porcelaine agot and Brass prized imports from China and the Persian and ottoman Empires however Jesus's light-skin and blue eyes suggest that he's not Middle Eastern but European born the faux Hebrew script embroidered on Mary's cuffs and hemline belies a complicated relationship to the Judaism of the Holy Family now it really doesn't matter what Jesus Christ looked like what truly matters is this all baptized Believers in Christ can be assured of one thing there will come a day at the end
of our Earthly lives when Jesus Will greet Us in the court of the Heavenly Sanctuary on that day we will see him face to face in a reality Beyond time and space and he might have a Visage that no one could ever imagine if you made it all the way to this part of the video you may qualify for our membership so you might want to listen closely it's an exclusive area where we release videos that we cannot show to the general public yet you will get to see everything first and learn about truths that
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