. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . CHAPTER IV THE HEDGEHOG, THE LAMB, THE LION The hedgehog is a type of the Evil natural history described him asa robber of the vines. First he would knockoff the grapes and then he would carry themaway on his spines. In a similar way the devilrobs men of their souls. On a spandrel of the perpendicular Eastersepulchre at Childrey, Berks, the hedgehogis carved eating grapes from a conventionalvine, and three dogs come to bark at andworry him. The hedgehog seems imperturb-able, confident in his power of being a m


. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture . CHAPTER IV THE HEDGEHOG, THE LAMB, THE LION The hedgehog is a type of the Evil natural history described him asa robber of the vines. First he would knockoff the grapes and then he would carry themaway on his spines. In a similar way the devilrobs men of their souls. On a spandrel of the perpendicular Eastersepulchre at Childrey, Berks, the hedgehogis carved eating grapes from a conventionalvine, and three dogs come to bark at andworry him. The hedgehog seems imperturb-able, confident in his power of being a matchfor any or all of them. When a lamb is seen in architecture, it isalmost always the Lamb of God or Agnus Dei, Who was crucified for oursalvation, the only acceptable sacrifice. Theecclesiastical symbolism is derived not onlyfrom S. John Baptists words with referenceto Our Lord : Behold the Lamb of Godwhich taketh away the sin of the world,and from 1 S. Peter i. 19, A Lamb with-out blemish and without spot ; but more (SI SYMBOLISM OF ANIMALS IN particularly from


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