Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 253
Scapegoat of the Hebrews sprinkled with blood, andled out to die in the wilderness for the sins of the people. There was something at oncepainful and ludicrous in this attempt to wring from a local barbaric custom of doubtful mean-ing, food for imagination and religious feeling, and it is a pity… … THE FINDING OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE. FROM THE PICTURE BY WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT. made use of the old legend that the souls of the children slain by Herod accompany theholy family in their flight into exile, but he has so surrounded a subject that the earliermasters were content to leave in its…
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