Monuments of the Early Church

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Macmillan, 1901 - 432 Seiten
 

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Seite 261 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Seite 218 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil: for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Seite 175 - Behold the lamb of God, behold him who taketh away the sins of the world; and that other: As many as have been baptized, have put on Christ.
Seite 198 - ... deliver the soul even from death and the grave. Starting with the observation that the phraseology of many early epitaphs seemed to be derived from the liturgy of the Church, the suggestion lay very near that the pictorial themes . also might have been inspired from the same source. It proved, in fact, very easy to show a relation between the themes of Christian sepulchral art and the funeral liturgies, which is altogether too complete and too precise to be fortuitous. Le Blant referred especially...
Seite 235 - Ichthus from the spring, the great, the pure, which the spotless Virgin caught and ever puts before the Friends to eat; she has also delicious wine, and she offers wine mixed with water together with bread.
Seite 303 - There existed in the garden four sorts of trees. first, those which were " pleasant to the sight ; " second, those that were " good for food ; " third, " the tree of life which was in the midst of the garden ; " and fourth, " the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Seite v - ... monuments of early Christian art must be regarded, or to summarize the historical inferences which may be drawn from them. The author has confined himself scrupulously to the welldefined and soundly assured results of this study, and has endeavored to eliminate questions of a controversial character. The period covered by this study extends from the second to the sixth century inclusive. The interest of this period to the secular student lies in the fact that it represents the last phase of...
Seite 235 - My name is Abercius, a disciple of the holy Shepherd who feeds His sheep upon the hills and plains, who has great eyes which see through all, who taught me the sure learning of life, and sent me to Rome to see the royal city and the queen clad in a golden robe and with golden shoes. There I saw a people who had the gleaming seal. I saw also the plains of Syria and all cities, Nisibis, beyond the Euphrates. Everywhere I found fellow believers...
Seite 198 - Lord, thy servant into the place of salvation which he may hope of thy mercy. Deliver, O Lord, the soul of thy servant from the pains of hell, etc.
Seite 73 - Mayest thou live in the Lord ! and pray for us." This is simply the realization of the communion of saints. Of the third or fourth century is the following: — ANATOLIVS FILIO BENEMERENTI FECIT QVI VIXIT ANNIS VII MENSIS VII DIE BVS XX ISPIRITVS TVVS BENE REQVIES CAT IN DEO PETAS PRO SORORE TVA (Lat. mus. VIII. 19.) " Thy spirit rest in God : pray for thy sister.

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