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 |
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... seven baskets of the miracle in the Gospel with an eighth added , the sense of the eighth being this , that we are not to think of the literal historical miracle , nor of the mere multiplication , though mi- raculous , of ordinary bread ...
... seven baskets of the miracle in the Gospel with an eighth added , the sense of the eighth being this , that we are not to think of the literal historical miracle , nor of the mere multiplication , though mi- raculous , of ordinary bread ...
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... seven , namely , to hint that we are not to think of the miracle wrought at Cana in Galilee , but of the change of the wine in the Eucharist and of a marriage feast altogether divine , which was then foreshadowed . After these allusions ...
... seven , namely , to hint that we are not to think of the miracle wrought at Cana in Galilee , but of the change of the wine in the Eucharist and of a marriage feast altogether divine , which was then foreshadowed . After these allusions ...
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... seven figures seated at the table represent all the disciples of Christ . The number seven , signifying universality , re- minds us of the seven disciples to whom Christ , OF THE EUCHARIST . 25 27 COMPOSITION F -OF THE EUCHARIST.
... seven figures seated at the table represent all the disciples of Christ . The number seven , signifying universality , re- minds us of the seven disciples to whom Christ , OF THE EUCHARIST . 25 27 COMPOSITION F -OF THE EUCHARIST.
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... seven baskets of whole cakes of bread , not fragments , ranged below , allude to the similar miracle , recorded by S. Mark , of the multi- plication of seven loaves , after which they took up seven baskets full of fragments ; while the ...
... seven baskets of whole cakes of bread , not fragments , ranged below , allude to the similar miracle , recorded by S. Mark , of the multi- plication of seven loaves , after which they took up seven baskets full of fragments ; while the ...
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... seven Sacraments could have been painted by them , as the present mode of numbering and defin- ing the seven Sacraments was introduced much later . Still , as the present technical language and doctrine of the Church on this subject is ...
... seven Sacraments could have been painted by them , as the present mode of numbering and defin- ing the seven Sacraments was introduced much later . Still , as the present technical language and doctrine of the Church on this subject is ...
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