Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 260
he baskets, like thefish, were an abbreviation of the miraculous feeding of themultitude, but the wine was added expressly with reference tothe Eucharist. It is known that glass chalices were in use;it may be that the basket too had not merely a symbolical sug-gestion. It seems as if Jerome were… … catacomb of Callistus. It symbolizes the Eucharist, representing two fish, -svlth basketsand a glass of mne. a cup of glass. The symbolism of the fish comes to clearerexpression in this picture : the fish is Christ, it is he who offersthis food, and the food he offers is himself. This picture…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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