Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism. With an essay on Baal worship, on the Assyrian sacred "grove" and other allied symbols by John Newton (1875)
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876, Newton, John, M.R.C.S.E · New York J.W. Bouton · leaf 132
olific fruit is said to have been a pomegranate. Mythologically, that writer sees no difficulty in thestory, for those who affirm that rocks and hard stones havebrought forth. In the Song of Solomon, apples and the treethat bears them are often referred to; and we have inCh. ii. 5 the curious… … 56 is meant; if so, we know that a leaf of that tree is tobe seen in every amorous picture found in Pompeii, theplant having been supposed to increase virile power. Othersimagine that the citron is intended, whose shape makes it anemblem of the testis. However this may be decided, it istolerably…
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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