The grotesque in church art . by thecurse. Adam Clarke maintained that Nachasch was a traditional and mystic form of the angels was that of aserpent. Seraph means a fiery serpent. In Isaiahs vision,the seraphim are human-headed serpents. One of the mostremarkable items in the history of worship is the account ofthe symbolic serpent erected by Moses, and the subsequentuse of it as an idol until the time of Hezekiah. In the first satireof Perseus, he says, paint two snakes, the place is sacred! The use of the serpent as theChurch symbol of regeneration andrevival of health or life is
The grotesque in church art . by thecurse. Adam Clarke maintained that Nachasch was a traditional and mystic form of the angels was that of aserpent. Seraph means a fiery serpent. In Isaiahs vision,the seraphim are human-headed serpents. One of the mostremarkable items in the history of worship is the account ofthe symbolic serpent erected by Moses, and the subsequentuse of it as an idol until the time of Hezekiah. In the first satireof Perseus, he says, paint two snakes, the place is sacred! The use of the serpent as theChurch symbol of regeneration andrevival of health or life is not commonin carvings. In these senses it wasused by the Greeks, though chiefly asthe symbol of the Supreme Intellect,being the special attribute and co-typeof Minerva. The personal apparitionwhich confronted Eve is not so in-frequent, though without much a representation of the temptation of Adam and Eveamong the misericordes of Ely, the tree of the knowledge ofgood and evil is shewn of a very peculiar shape. The. I III- SI- Kl-I- NT, II V. SATANIC REPRESENTATIONS. 75
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