An Introduction to Early Christian Symbolism: Being the Description of a Series of Fourteen Compositions from Fresco-paintings, Glasses, and Sculptured Sarcophagi : with Three Appendices

Portada
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859 - 77 páginas
 

Páginas seleccionadas

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 49 - Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks, so longeth my soul after Thee, O God !
Página 56 - to the end of the third or the beginning of the fourth century
Página 3 - one of the two sheep is listening attentively, not quite understanding as yet, but meditating, and seeking to understand : the other turns his tail: it is an unwelcome subject, and he will have nothing to do with it. On the other side,
Página 4 - with simplicity and affection : the other is eating grass; he has something else to do; he is occupied with the cares and pleasures and riches of this
Página 20 - righteous servant Abel, and the sacrifice of our forefather Abraham, and that
Página 51 - Christ himself as uniting the two creations of nature and grace. In the first or natural creation life began in the waters and from the waters, of which the fish is the inhabitant. In the spiritual or new creation,
Página 3 - heads, ie in order to communicate it to the world. The world to which they are sent is represented by two sheep standing before
Página 19 - that those prayers are most prevailing which are made with the consecrated gifts lying
Página 18 - The two fishes on the table remind us of the multiplication of the five loaves and

Información bibliográfica