International studio . re like gargoylesthan men. Then three days in the en-tombment, three days of profoundestmystery. Then His final ippearance be-fore His disciples, and His words todoubting Thomas : Blessed are they thathave not seen, and yet have believed ;the moment with the v/hole past behind it;it was evidently just this moment thatEpstein has chosen for a portrayal of hisChrist. 000000 Then turn to the present, the devastationof Europe, Golgotha on an immense scale,the crucifixion of civilization, the cruci-fixion of Christianity itself. Imagine aChrist arising out of the entombment o
International studio . re like gargoylesthan men. Then three days in the en-tombment, three days of profoundestmystery. Then His final ippearance be-fore His disciples, and His words todoubting Thomas : Blessed are they thathave not seen, and yet have believed ;the moment with the v/hole past behind it;it was evidently just this moment thatEpstein has chosen for a portrayal of hisChrist. 000000 Then turn to the present, the devastationof Europe, Golgotha on an immense scale,the crucifixion of civilization, the cruci-fixion of Christianity itself. Imagine aChrist arising out of the entombment of ashell-torn earth ; His profound fierce anger, touched with scorn at thesight of what had been wrought by menprofessing a belief in Him; were they notalso doubting Thomases of a sort ^ 0 All this the sculptor has put into hisstatue, which is a work, surely, of its time ;the first work of art which shows the moresignificant effects of the passion dramalately enacted in the once fertile valleys of ^^^,. -^.
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