Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages (1851)
Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867, Millington, Ellen J, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 190
laimed: 0 thou of heaven ISay wherefore hast thou robbed me ? WEIGHING OF SOULS IN THE BALANCE. 179 the souls of tlie good and evil man, where a demon catcheshold of the scale in which the soul of the good man isrising.* M. de Maury, in his treatise on the origin of the subjectof psychostasis, has… … Fig. 217. doctrines of an attendant genius and an angel shade leaderand weigher of souls. How almost inconceivable at firstsight it appears that the messenger of Olympus shouldbecome chief of the legions of Jehovah : that Mercury,Hermes, Thoth, of expiring religions, should enter Chris-tian…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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