Ancient pagan and modern Christian symbolism (1922)
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876, Newton, John, M.M.C.B.E · New York, Peter Eckler publishing company · leaf 98
a god. The same plan has been adopted by themoderns, who have varied the symbol by representing it nowas a golden disc, now as a terrestrial orb, again as a rayedsphere. A writer, when describing a god as a man, can saythat the object he sketches is divine; but a p^iinter thinkstoo much of his art… … Figure 23. Figure 24. 86 deity to be reverenced; modern artists thus proving them-selves to be far more skilful in depicting the Almighty thanthe carpenters and goldsmiths of the time of Isaiah (xl. 18,19, xli. 6, 7, xliv. 9-19), who used no such contrivance. Figure 24 is another representation of…
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