In the anti Catholic tract "death cookie" chick makes the claim that IHS realy stands for Isis, Horus, and Set of the egyptian pantheon.: Bloodkith (talk) 22:05, 28 April 2011
- Chick, a 20th century comic book writer "claims" something? How encyclopedic! History2007 (talk) 23:00, 28 April 2011 (UTC)Reply
- That seems to me to be one of the clearest cases where Chick must have pretty much known he was lying (or proceeded with one-eye-closed reckless and malicious indifference to truth and falsehood). In any case, the Geneva Calvinists also embraced IHS/JHS, and there are explanations in probably more detail than you want to know about the true origin at Christogram... AnonMoos (talk) 15:58, 15 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
The scope of this article cannot be the "name of Jesus", for which see name of Jesus, let alone the name "Jesus", for which see Jesus (name), Yeshua (name).
Its scope is clearly the specifically Roman Catholic tradition associated with the specific term of (Most) Holy Name of Jesus (Santissimo Nome di Gesù, there doesn't even seem to be a coined Latin term for it) as it developed from the 14th century or so.
--dab (𒁳) 13:27, 6 August 2016 (UTC)Reply
- Regarding the split tag: (1) I am regrettably unclear as to what specific portions of this particular article should be split off to the Nomina sacra article, and would be willing to attempt it, but need clarification on that point; and (2) as the very short article pertaining to the "Litany of the Holy Name" was apparently redirected to this page contemporaneously with the tag, I removed it from those subjects proposed for a potential split, as its listing therein seemed somewhat contradictory. As this article is only around 15K bytes, perhaps some material regarding the aforesaid Litany could be incorporated in the section "Roman Catholic devotion". I would hazard that the Litany is better known than the "Little Sachet". Cheers. Mannanan51 (talk) 06:14, 30 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
- Since the split proposal, which seems a bad idea to me, has attracted no support in some 9 months, I'll remove it. Johnbod (talk) 09:02, 30 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
