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 163
Figure 125. Figure 126. Figure 127. Figure 128 represents the same subject; the cuts aregrouped so as to show how the knobbed stick, le baton,becomes converted either into a bent rod, la verge, or apriestly crook, le baton pastoral. There is no doubt thatthe episcopal crozier is a presentable… … Figure 128. birds. Perhaps we ought to be grateful to Popery for havingconsecrated to Christ what was so long used in that whichdivines call the service of the devil. Figures 129, 130, 131, are, like the preceding four,copied from various antique gems; Fig. 129 represents
Symbolism · Christian art and symbolism
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