Monuments of the early church . lions, an obscure subject, the paralytic carrying hisbed, healing of the blind, multipHcation of the loaves and fishes. weak one in this case, where the execution is so rough and allthe figures are so much alike; but we have already seen thatPeter is elsewhere expressly identified with Moses striking therock, and the only adequate explanation we can suggest for thefrequent repetition of the Hebrews assault upon Moses is thatit represents at the same time the arrest of Peter at Scriptures do not record that the Hebrews ever took vio-lent hold of Moses. O
Monuments of the early church . lions, an obscure subject, the paralytic carrying hisbed, healing of the blind, multipHcation of the loaves and fishes. weak one in this case, where the execution is so rough and allthe figures are so much alike; but we have already seen thatPeter is elsewhere expressly identified with Moses striking therock, and the only adequate explanation we can suggest for thefrequent repetition of the Hebrews assault upon Moses is thatit represents at the same time the arrest of Peter at Scriptures do not record that the Hebrews ever took vio-lent hold of Moses. On the other hand it is evident that thearrest of Peter, which is represented in Fig. 100 (second sub-ject from the left above), closely corresponds with this will be remembered that Christ foretold to Peter not onlyhis denial but his martyrdom, saying, When thou art old, thou 2r>2 PICTOIilAL ABT slnlt stretch forth thy liaiuls, and another shall gird thee, andcurry thee whither thou wouldest not. There is marked ap-. SCULPTURE— Sarcophagi 263 propriateness in representing here the martyrdom of Peter withwhich he atoned for his deniah In the next scene, as the offi-cial representative of the Church, as the rock upon which itwas founded, he refreshes the world with the floods of baptismwhich flow from that other rock, which is Christ. Reviewing briefly the principal ideas of this sarcophagus,we have: the divine Trinity, the creation of man, his fall andthe promise of the Redeemer; the sacrament of the Eucharistand the resurrection, the calling of the Gentiles, and the con-stitution of the Apostolic Church which renews the sinfulrace thi-ough baptism. It must be confessed that no other sarcophagus shows soprofound a connection of ideas. It is certain that the artiststhemselves had often no conception of the deeper ideas whichunderlay the themes which they repeated, and we are usuallyleft in doubt w^hether there is any intelligent connection to betraced between the su
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