Volume 1
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 / commenced by the late Mrs. Jameson ; continued and completed by Lady Eastlake.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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 / commenced by the late Mrs. Jameson ; continued and completed by Lady Eastlake. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A.J.'] is empty ; below this, Christ descends into hell in search of the lost sinner; in another part of the picture He ascends again into heaven, holding Adam (i. e, the human race) by the hand, and there is joy in heaven, and the angels sing allelujahs. This may be deemed far-fetched, but the other extreme seems to me worse, and the attempts to render literally that which is a mere metaphor have been sometimes grotesque and even profane. I re- member an anonymous Grerman print of the 16th century, in which we have the parable of the Camel and the Needle’s Eye (I believe an old Oriental proverb, applied by our Saviour figuratively). A rich man is trying to enter a narrow gate leading into heaven; behind him three of his servants, with whips and sticks, are trying to force a camel through the eye of a needle, held by a celestial hand. Nothiog can be worse in point of taste or more absurd than this.] END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON PRINTED BY S POTT IS WO ODE AND CO. f NEW-STREET SQUARE](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24876239_0001_0440.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
