. The Open court . represented by Gabrielsupports the left side of the star. Here the Christ picture is notthe suffering Christ in the Veronicas but is the idealized divinity,Gods vicegerent on earth from whom the secular government de-rives all its power. The inscription reads in Greek, The assemblyof the archangels: This picture is peculiar in one respect. It represents Christwith wings like an angel which is exceptional in Christian art. The idea of representing the church as a ship suggested toChristian artists the conception of Christ as a helmsman, an ideawhich appears first in the third
. The Open court . represented by Gabrielsupports the left side of the star. Here the Christ picture is notthe suffering Christ in the Veronicas but is the idealized divinity,Gods vicegerent on earth from whom the secular government de-rives all its power. The inscription reads in Greek, The assemblyof the archangels: This picture is peculiar in one respect. It represents Christwith wings like an angel which is exceptional in Christian art. The idea of representing the church as a ship suggested toChristian artists the conception of Christ as a helmsman, an ideawhich appears first in the third century as indicated by passages inHippolytus (De Antichristo, Chap. 59) and in the Apostolic Consti- THE PORTRAYAL OF CHRIST. 37 tutions (Book II, Chapter 57). On a broken piece of a sarcophagusdiscovered in Spoleto we find Jesus seated at the hehn, rudder inhand, while the evangeHsts ply the oars. Matthew is broken off,but Mark, Luke and John are identified by inscriptions. The faceof Jesus is somewhat THE CHURCH AS A painting in St. Callistus. In a fresco in the catacomb of St. Callistus the pious man isstanding on the prow of a ship; Jesus, emerging from the clouds inheaven, lays his right hand in protection on his head, while anotherman is struggling in the water. This obviously means that thefaithful believer will be saved from shipwreck while the infidel isleft without help at the mercy of the surges.^ ^V. Schultze sees in this picture an illustration of Pauls shipwreck, butif that had been the artists intention there would have been a crew onboard the ship instead of but one man at the rudder, and the artist would haveadhered more closely to the representation of other details. Possibly we arehere confronted with an illustration of the Jonah story. [to be continued.] THE JESUS AND THE BAPTIST: A REBUTTAL. BY WILLIAM BENJAMIN SMITH. IT would have been much more convenient and satisfactory for thereader, had this rejoinder followed immediately, in th
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