. The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types ; St. John the Baptist ; and other persons of the Old and New Testament. tical of the equalGodhead of all. Nevertheless the Second Person takes the leadto the eye of the believer, for the end of the Cross rests upon theworld. It may be remarked that in these forms of representation, wherethe locality is heaven, the Trinity, whether two only, or all three inhuman forms, are always seated. This position refers to the figureof speech, illustrative of repose and command, which describes theFirst Person as sitting on
. The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types ; St. John the Baptist ; and other persons of the Old and New Testament. tical of the equalGodhead of all. Nevertheless the Second Person takes the leadto the eye of the believer, for the end of the Cross rests upon theworld. It may be remarked that in these forms of representation, wherethe locality is heaven, the Trinity, whether two only, or all three inhuman forms, are always seated. This position refers to the figureof speech, illustrative of repose and command, which describes theFirst Person as sitting on the throne or the heavens, and Christ asseated at His right Not that Art has always observed thisposition of the Son, who in our etching, as in many instances thatcould be given, is on the left of the Father. This is probably 1 In scholastic times, when every sense but, or besides, the most obvious one wasgiven to the forms of Scripture speech, the idea of the exclusive privilege of the seatedposture possessed by the Trinity was worked out to the verge of the burlesque, as de-scribed in the history of the Fall of Lucifer (see vol. i. p. 57).. : Mew-bUng. Grvmsc&wJBrericury. Library. Venice/. CHRIST AS SECOND PERSON OF THE TRINITY. 349 traceable to a confusion even still existing between the right andleft of the figures represented and that of the spectator. The three Persons of the Trinity, it is true, are also seenstanding, and even in animate gestures, as in the subject of theCreation of the Angels (see etching, vol. i. p. 62), or of Man. Butwhenever the abstract idea of the great mystery is intended, theseated position will always be found. This position of the Trinityis the most stately and reverential which Art has embodied. Thereis something superhuman to the eye in these grand and solemnfigures which sit side by side—separate, yet the same— the FatherLord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord, invested withpurple mantles, and with such insignia as co
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