Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 188
tiary.)to eat, and thereby gets its horns entangled inthe branches, so that it cannot free itself again.Then it cries out with a loud voice, and the huntershearing it hasten to take it, or it is killed by beastsof prey. The two horns are the Books of the Oldand New Testaments, with which the… … 174 Animal Symbolism and gets entangled in the thickets of lust and prideand evil passions, falls an easy prey to the devil.The author then quotes as a passage from HolyWrit the words Wine and women separate aman from God, evidently an inference from theadmonitions contained in Prov. xxxi. 3-5. The…
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