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The Mandylion
Another one, done on request again, to check if "Mandylion" could be also found in the Aramaic NT (Peshitta). 9 occurrences were expected and 7 were found. The lowest skip was extendable to "the Mandylion" and was found next to the expression "in the likeness of the image of His Son" (Romans 8:29), which fits perfectly the Mandylion's description indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_of_Edessa
"...According to Christian legend, the Image of Edessa, (known to Orthodox Christians as the Mandylion, a Byzantine Greek word not applied in any other context), was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus was imprinted” the first icon ("image"). According to a legend which developed over many centuries, this image was imprinted into a cloth during a visit of Jesus to the King..."
