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The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art: with that of His types; St. John the Baptist; and other persons of the Old and New Testament (1864)

Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860, Eastlake, Elizabeth, 1809-1893 · London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green · leaf 216

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184 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. The only idea needful to be conveyed was that the moral Law came direct from God. … 73 Moses receiving the Law the plain. (Ancient sarcophagus) . This subject stamps Moses with that espe- cial character of lawgiver which belongs to most abstract representa- tions of him. Henceforth that effulgence from his face, for which Art, for the reason mentioned (p. 171), adopted the…

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