Hoptasia is a word derived from the Greek ὀπτασία meaning "a vision, supernatural appearance, apparition". Its use in English is limited to a few specific contexts: in the Bible (Luke 24:23), it refers to the angels seen by the women visiting Christ's grave,[1] and in Christian legend it is used to indicate the vision of the Chi-Rho (or True Cross, depending on the version) seen by Constantine I.[2][3][4][5]
References
edit- ^ White, Ellen G. (1878). The Biblical Institute: A Synopsis of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists. Steam Press of the Pacific S. D. A. p. 185.
- ^ Gradon, P. O. E. Swanton, Michael (ed.). Cynewulf's Elene. Exeter: U of Exter P. p. 19.
- ^ Scragg, Donald G. (2001). Aelfric's Lives of Canonised Popes. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute. p. 63.
- ^ Heckman, Christina M. (2009). "Things in Doubt: Inventio, Dialectic, and Jewish Secrets in Cynewulf's Elene". Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 108 (4): 449–80. doi:10.1353/egp.0.0072. JSTOR 20722771.
- ^ Bodden, Mary-Catherine (1987). The Old English Finding of the True Cross. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. p. 33. ISBN 9780859911986.