. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . ^Aj:™f o^. Ol :-EW y:PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOP, LFNOX ^- FtUNDA IONS ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE less complicated had the sculptor kept moreclosely to the descriptions in the Bible, buthis representations are far too conventionalfor him to do that. In Judges xiv. 6 we read that The Spiritof the Lord came mightily upon vSamson,and he rent the lion, as he would haverent a kid. This method of dispatching the enemyseized on the fancy of the artist of the MiddleAges more than the Biblical description ofDavids prowess, in 1 Sam
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . ^Aj:™f o^. Ol :-EW y:PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOP, LFNOX ^- FtUNDA IONS ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE less complicated had the sculptor kept moreclosely to the descriptions in the Bible, buthis representations are far too conventionalfor him to do that. In Judges xiv. 6 we read that The Spiritof the Lord came mightily upon vSamson,and he rent the lion, as he would haverent a kid. This method of dispatching the enemyseized on the fancy of the artist of the MiddleAges more than the Biblical description ofDavids prowess, in 1 Sam. xvii. 35. There it is said of David, that when a lionand a bear took a lamb out of the flock, Iwent out after him, and smote him, anddelivered it out of his mouth ; and when hearose against me, I caught him by the beard,and smote him and slew him. David and the Uon are often represented inCeltic MSS. and on Celtic crosses. Both the scenes we have described aretypical of the power of Christ, to save theChristian from the lions mouth ( 21), and from the power of our adversary
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