And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
All look like Eastern Orthodox churches. The dome on #2 marks it as Georgian. CW - why are you not in an Orthodox church? You seem to have a good handle on beauty - which will save the world. Next step is truth.
Only Jesus Christ can save, and He will, for all who believe He lived the perfect life that none of us can live, died a substitutionary death in our place, and rose from the dead, proving His deity.
1 Corinthians 15:1–7 (ESV): “Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.”
The Man is the God-Man Himself, Jesus, the Christ. If you would learn things beyond your small, closed way of thinking, you would know the meaning of the "pictures." the cross in the halo identifies him as the the God-Man Himself, Jesus, the Christ. Who is the Truth, which is found in His fullness in the Orthodox Church. The woman is probably an empress who followed Him. As Susan asked, what is your point?
Bottom photo is Santa Maria in Trastevere, in Rome. Central figure in the apsidial mosaic (12c) was memorably described by a Welsh Benedictine of my acquaintance as, "Jesus givin' 'is mum an 'ug."
The woman Jesus is "hugging" is not His mother, The Theotokos.The woman depicted is dressed as a byzantine empress, who probably used her treasure to build that temple, and followed the Master. The Mother of God has her own symbolism, and that's not it.
Any idea where the pictures were tanken?
ReplyDeleteAll look like Eastern Orthodox churches. The dome on #2 marks it as Georgian. CW - why are you not in an Orthodox church? You seem to have a good handle on beauty - which will save the world. Next step is truth.
ReplyDeleteOnly Jesus Christ can save, and He will, for all who believe He lived the perfect life that none of us can live, died a substitutionary death in our place, and rose from the dead, proving His deity.
Delete1 Corinthians 15:1–7 (ESV): “Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.”
A man and a woman on a throne (look closely, upper left hand corner), . . .
ReplyDeleteWhat's your point???
DeleteThe Man is the God-Man Himself, Jesus, the Christ. If you would learn things beyond your small, closed way of thinking, you would know the meaning of the "pictures." the cross in the halo identifies him as the the God-Man Himself, Jesus, the Christ. Who is the Truth, which is found in His fullness in the Orthodox Church.
DeleteThe woman is probably an empress who followed Him.
As Susan asked, what is your point?
Holy moly.
ReplyDeleteBottom photo is Santa Maria in Trastevere, in Rome. Central figure in the apsidial mosaic (12c) was memorably described by a Welsh Benedictine of my acquaintance as, "Jesus givin' 'is mum an 'ug."
ReplyDeleteThe woman Jesus is "hugging" is not His mother, The Theotokos.The woman depicted is dressed as a byzantine empress, who probably used her treasure to build that temple, and followed the Master. The Mother of God has her own symbolism, and that's not it.
DeleteBeautiful. Thanks CW.
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