The Open court . The Woman of the Revelation of St. John. (By Albrecht Diirer.) Jews, who had suffered badly at the hands of the Egyptians, As-syrians, Babylonians, Syrians, and Romans. It is un-Christian for |any one to indulge in such hopes of divine wrath inflicted upon his ESCHATOLOGY IN CHRISTIAN ART. 407 religious adversaries ; and happily the main prophecy of the JewishChristian author of the revelation was not fulfilled. By a strangeirony of fate Judaic Christianity disappeared from the face of the. u earth, while Rome became the centre of the Gentile Christianity,in
The Open court . The Woman of the Revelation of St. John. (By Albrecht Diirer.) Jews, who had suffered badly at the hands of the Egyptians, As-syrians, Babylonians, Syrians, and Romans. It is un-Christian for |any one to indulge in such hopes of divine wrath inflicted upon his ESCHATOLOGY IN CHRISTIAN ART. 407 religious adversaries ; and happily the main prophecy of the JewishChristian author of the revelation was not fulfilled. By a strangeirony of fate Judaic Christianity disappeared from the face of the. u earth, while Rome became the centre of the Gentile Christianity,in which capacity she rose almost to more glorious power thanpagan Rome ever possessed through her political was thoroughly Romanised and remained under the 4o8 THE OPEN COURT. sway of Rome until the Reformation split the Church in twain andopened new possibilities for a progressive development of Chris-tianity, no longer subject to the dictates of a conclave of Italiancardinals and a Roman pope. p H n a n w o ?-1 a. > a iS JQ re o O » fT H < a n m P <: B w O z l-»5 rn U) w o
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