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Page 169
... head of a man surrounded by pairs of animal heads , of boar or of boar , bird of prey and another indefinable genus ( Figure 8.13a and b ) . Four half - figures facing one another are also met with on the intersection of the cross on ...
... head of a man surrounded by pairs of animal heads , of boar or of boar , bird of prey and another indefinable genus ( Figure 8.13a and b ) . Four half - figures facing one another are also met with on the intersection of the cross on ...
Page 176
... head between eagles suggests an allegory of the resurrection of Christ , the combination of ' human head between eagle - boar - wolf ' cannot consistently be read christologically . Only as a bird of prey in the non - specific ...
... head between eagles suggests an allegory of the resurrection of Christ , the combination of ' human head between eagle - boar - wolf ' cannot consistently be read christologically . Only as a bird of prey in the non - specific ...
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... head of the whole church which is his body : caput supra omnem ecclesiam , quae est corpus ipsius ( Ephesians 1:22 , cf. Colossians 1:18 ) . Leo the Great influen- tially expressed the idea that from Peter , ' as from the head ...
... head of the whole church which is his body : caput supra omnem ecclesiam , quae est corpus ipsius ( Ephesians 1:22 , cf. Colossians 1:18 ) . Leo the Great influen- tially expressed the idea that from Peter , ' as from the head ...
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