The sign Tau
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the sign Tau · the letter T · the mark
in the texts
Adversus Judaeos
A mark written on the foreheads of those who mourn Jerusalem's sins, sparing them from destruction.
Pass through the midst of Jerusalem, and write the sign Tau on the foreheads of the men who groan and grieve over all the misdeeds done in their midst;
Adversus Marcionem
The prophetic mark set on the foreheads of the faithful, identified with the shape of the cross.
" Premising this, then, and subjoining accordingly that Christ too suffered, he prophesied that his just ones equally would suffer the same — both the apostles and thereafter all the faithful — marked, namely, with that sign concerning which Ezekiel: