Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 153
separate from thyself theworks of the flesh, which are adulteries, fornications,revellings, and envyings, and throw them to thedevil, who hunteth after thy soul, saying : I willpursue my enemies and overtake them. Thencanst thou exclaim with the Psalmist: Our soulis escaped as a bird out of the… … In Ecclesiastical Architecture 139 the Physiologies is of very ancient date, and isrecorded by the Egyptian priest Horapollo, as wellas by Apuleius, Pliny, /Elian, and Juvenal, and wasgenerally accepted as true by mediaeval writers.Albertus Magnus, as we have seen, rejects it as false, although…
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