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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 262

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ct was more com-mon than scenes of fishing, which were employed in a purelydecorative interest. Similar scenes repeated in Christian artwere undoubtedly regarded as symbolical (Fig. 126). We haveseen that the common fisherman stood for the apostolic fisherof men, for the fish represented not only…

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