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Title: Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867 Millington, Ellen J Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Art, Medieval
Publisher: London : H. G. Bohn
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necessary deduction. (See the Prophecyof Daniel, iii. 23, 24, 25, 26.) St. Cyprian recognised the Trinity, not merelyin the three young Hebrews, but figured even in the distribution of the prayerswhich those young men offered up in conjunction with Daniel. (St. Cyprian,De Omtione Dominica, near the end. See the Institutions Liturgiques parDom Gueranger, vol. i., pp. 49, 81.) It may also be remarked, that verse51 of chap, iii.,* which describes the three children as praising God with onevoice, only, has been claimed as an additional argument in support of the com-mentators, who, in the whole of that history, discover a representation ofthe Trinity. Tunc hi Très quasi ex Uno ore laudabant et glorificabant etbeuedicebant Deum in fornace. * M. Didron here refers to v. 28 of the Apocryphal book called the Songof the Three Children. In Tremellius, the passage will be found in the Adjectiones in Dauielem, v. 51, among the Apocryphal books.—Ed. THE MATÎ^IFESTATIOîfS OF THE TEIIS^ITT. 19
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Fig. 133.—THE TRIXITY AT THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST. Italian carving on -wood, xiv cent.* * The carving on wood from which the above engraving is copied, was c2 20 CHRISTIAT^ ICONOGRAPHY. The New Testament is far more precise ; it both namesthe Trinity and shows it in visible substance. Jesus said to his Apostles, Go ye therefoi-e and teach allnations, baptising them in the name of the Father and ofthe Son, and of the Holy Ghost. (Matt, xxviii. 19.) OurSaviour says to his disciples elsewhere, And I will pray theFather and he shall give you another Comforter, that he mayabide with you for ever, even the spirit of truth. (St.John xiv. 16, 17.) St. John, in his first Epistle, declaresthat there are three who bear record in heaven, theFather, the AVord, and the Holy Ghost ; and these threeare one. (1 St. John v., 7.) These texts distinctlyname the three Divine persons, uniting them in the samephrase ; but at the baptism of Jesus Christ the Trinity wasmade visibly manifest, and in the same ac

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