Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 174
nd sacrifice. This essence is the wonder-working bvahma^ the monopoly of which by thepriests is the chief source of their power. On the capital of a column in the abbey ofVezelai in Burgundy is a relief representing two In Ecclesiastical Architecture 159 men working at a mill, one pouring corn into… … Gospel-mill. (Abbey of Vezelai in Burgundy.) the Synagogue and the Church; the former bringsthe wheat of the law, and the latter separates fromit the fine flour of the gospel, leaving only the branof empty ceremonialism as the portion of Judaism.This forced interpretation was not original with…
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