. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. The Good Shepherd,Fresco hi ^0 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. John is probably in the act. The Lords Supper, the agapeof the early church, is also painted on the walls of thetombs. Moses striking the rock, and the story of Jonahare also illustrated. In the latter is seen a great seamonster, and not a whale, casting Jonah upon dry shows that the revised version is correct in renderingit sea monster instead of whale. The frescoes are but rude-ly executed,
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. The Good Shepherd,Fresco hi ^0 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. John is probably in the act. The Lords Supper, the agapeof the early church, is also painted on the walls of thetombs. Moses striking the rock, and the story of Jonahare also illustrated. In the latter is seen a great seamonster, and not a whale, casting Jonah upon dry shows that the revised version is correct in renderingit sea monster instead of whale. The frescoes are but rude-ly executed, and yet theyteach their own lessons. Noone would come to the Cata-combs to take lessons in the- RePresentation of Loaves and Fish in Qlogy, and yet they prove be- the CatacombS- yond all doubt that the prim- itive church believed that Christ was baptized in the river,and not on its bank, and that the agape, or love feast, waspracticed in the primitive church. The frescoes to which we have referred belong to thevery earliest period. Later improvement was made indrawing and painting, and in the catacomb we explored wesaw the head of our Lord painted on the
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