Monuments of the early church . eft he holds an openscroll upon which are the letters of the word IX®YC. He hasthe sinii)le niml)us, and on each side of him are inscribed the letters A and figure of Christis framed in a greatwreath which issui)ported by thefour s^nnbols of theEvangelists. TheSaviour is here rep-resented above thesun, the moon, thestars, and the vaultof heaven; belowstands a veiledwoman in the atti-tude of prayer, thepersonification ofthe Church mili-tant, and above herhead the two Apos-tles hold a wreathin which is framedthe cross. The of-fice of the Apostlesis to hold b
Monuments of the early church . eft he holds an openscroll upon which are the letters of the word IX®YC. He hasthe sinii)le niml)us, and on each side of him are inscribed the letters A and figure of Christis framed in a greatwreath which issui)ported by thefour s^nnbols of theEvangelists. TheSaviour is here rep-resented above thesun, the moon, thestars, and the vaultof heaven; belowstands a veiledwoman in the atti-tude of prayer, thepersonification ofthe Church mili-tant, and above herhead the two Apos-tles hold a wreathin which is framedthe cross. The of-fice of the Apostlesis to hold beforethe eyes of theChurch Christscross, as the exam-ple for her life andas the only waythrough which shecan receive thecrown. But wenotice here a strange feature : the staff of the cross is elon-gated upward, tapering like a tongue of flame. It pointsstraight to a star, but it points on beyond this, above theheavens, to the divine Ichthus, Jesus Christ Son of God andSaviour, who is glorified by the Evangelists, the Ali)ha and. Fk;. kit. —a panel from the doors of S. Sabina. TlieAjiostk-s (liri-ctinj, the ^,aze of the ehurch to Christ in theheavens. SCULPTURE —Doors of St. Sabina lib Omega, forever elevated above the heavens, but remaining for-ever the only teacher, the only Lord of his Church, whichprayerfully gazes up to him through the cross. There remains but one other composition to consider; it isthe large panel at the lower right-hand corner of the riglit leafas shown in Fig. 106. This has been taken to represent theappearance of the angel to Zacharias in the temple; but onecan see at a glance how poorly it corresponds to the Biblicalaccount of this event; and as this is a subject nowhere elserepresented in early Christian art, we have the less reason toexpect it here. The cross plainly indicates a Christian build-ing, and the person who stands in front of this palace, basilica,or church (whichever it may be) is not a priest, nor an ecclesias-tic, for he wears the p
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