Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . pts modelled, as DeanStanley thinks, on the crypts of Palestine. Their symbolismis chiefly from the Old Testament. On the tombs of bishopsand martyrs figure rude frescoes of Moses striking the rock,Jonah and the whale, the three children, Jonah naked, sit-ting under a trellis of gourds. All this puzzled modernChristians when they were first opened. No bleeding Christswere to be seen. What connection was there between thesedesigns and the dead saint whose poor little chapel sepulchrethey illustrated ? In point of fact, each design represented a s
Buddhism in Christendom, or, Jesus, the Essene . pts modelled, as DeanStanley thinks, on the crypts of Palestine. Their symbolismis chiefly from the Old Testament. On the tombs of bishopsand martyrs figure rude frescoes of Moses striking the rock,Jonah and the whale, the three children, Jonah naked, sit-ting under a trellis of gourds. All this puzzled modernChristians when they were first opened. No bleeding Christswere to be seen. What connection was there between thesedesigns and the dead saint whose poor little chapel sepulchrethey illustrated ? In point of fact, each design represented a stage of thespiritual progress of the entombed saint. From Bosio(Sculture et Pittore, etc., 1737) I copy four favouritefrescoes for illustration. ^ Irenasus, Hasr. bk. i. c. 81. 2 Antiquitds Chrdtiennes, art. Secret. THE MYSTERIES. 125 I. The Child in the swaddling clothes of flesh introducedto the manger of animal Hfe (Fig. 11). iiinnitiiiiiiiimmiiiiiimffmiiiiiiiiroiiiiimiiiiiniiiiimiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiwiiiiiiwiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiwtiiniiii. Fig. II.
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