The church in the Roman empire before . BIPKIOEnOP^YPlOY AIAKU1 ^ATEEKEYAEATOI^EMOPIONEAYTWKAITI EYMBIUM°Y|0EYTTPETTIH KTO|C^,EKN°. Early Christian Monument from Prymnessos. [/>. 441. XVII. The Church from 130 to 170 441 sufficient proof that he belonged to the Catholic Church,and therefore that there was a Catholic Church at Prym-nessos, in the anti-Catholic part of Phrygia * The sculpture on the gravestone is interesting, as givingone of the earliest known representations of the Saviour,who, as in other early sculptures, is represented as a youth-ful figure. In all probability
The church in the Roman empire before . BIPKIOEnOP^YPlOY AIAKU1 ^ATEEKEYAEATOI^EMOPIONEAYTWKAITI EYMBIUM°Y|0EYTTPETTIH KTO|C^,EKN°. Early Christian Monument from Prymnessos. [/>. 441. XVII. The Church from 130 to 170 441 sufficient proof that he belonged to the Catholic Church,and therefore that there was a Catholic Church at Prym-nessos, in the anti-Catholic part of Phrygia * The sculpture on the gravestone is interesting, as givingone of the earliest known representations of the Saviour,who, as in other early sculptures, is represented as a youth-ful figure. In all probability a Montanist would haveregarded the representation of the Saviour as idolatrous ;but the Iconodoulic tendency was already beginning in theOrthodox Church. He stands, facing, but with the headturned to the right, with the thumb and two ringers of theright hand extended. The attitude is that of admonitionand instruction. The figure has the squat proportions thatmark the declining art of the late third and the fourthcentury. The features are those of the conventional maleyouth of later art, insipid but retaining the Greek typeand chara
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