ur saw from the Cross ms is the idea I wish to express in my engraving : a momentary lull has occurred in the midst of the shouts and insults of the spectators, who are alarmed by the threatening signs in the sky and by the ever increasing darkness. Now from the top of the Cross on the summit of… … “carer until the darkness shall be so great that there will be dangei of then being recognu^ed. So profound is the silence that even the distant murmur no of voices from the city and the blasts of the trum pets from the Temple can scarcely be heard.
Jesus Christ · Bible
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