. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . of the Christian Year, the successive dealings of God with His Church,Patriarchal, Jewish, and Christian. They bring out by means of type and anti-type the relationship of the Old to the New Testament, and show the process ofGods gradual revelation of Himself in Christ. The history of Noah, Abraham,Joseph, and Moses, in twelve of the panels of the W. half of the chapel, withthe figures of the twelve minor prophets in the four windows above, and of thefour greater prophets with David, Solomon, Samuel, a
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . of the Christian Year, the successive dealings of God with His Church,Patriarchal, Jewish, and Christian. They bring out by means of type and anti-type the relationship of the Old to the New Testament, and show the process ofGods gradual revelation of Himself in Christ. The history of Noah, Abraham,Joseph, and Moses, in twelve of the panels of the W. half of the chapel, withthe figures of the twelve minor prophets in the four windows above, and of thefour greater prophets with David, Solomon, Samuel, and Elijah in the , refer to the earlier dispensations. A series of events from the NewTestament,—the Annunciation, the Nativity, Baptism, Crucifixion, and Resur-rection of Our Lord,—is represented in mosaics, placed in the E. half of thechapel. The Ascension of Our Lord is represented in the glass of the E. window. * The Chapel is entered through a small cloister at its W. end, and is opea/r« dailyf;om 10 to 12 and from 2 to ; in the winter months it is closed at KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL. Aldens Oxford Guide. The seiies is continued to the present time by a mosaic panel beneath the ,which representsOurLord as He revealed tlimself, after His ascension,to St. John in the Isle of Patmos, One like unto the Son of Man, present inHisChurch now and till the end ; the Church being symbolised by seven candle-sticks around Him, and her chief ministers by seven stars in His right hand ;:conveying to the eye the promise given of His perpetual piesence. ChristianSaints in mosaic panels on either side support the figure of Our Lord, while theGreek and Latin Doctors are represented in the four side windows above. Inthe transept windows are central figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, supported byfigures of the four Evangelists. At the West end is depicted in three mosaicpanels the Second Coming of Our Lord to Judgment, enthroned with theapostles, and attended byange
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