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"Do you think it would be better for us to camp here in the hills rather than to stop without the walls of Jerusalem between the city forces and the winter garrison of Titus and await the opening of the Gates?" Julian asked after thought. "We shall wait in Emmaus," the Maccabee repeated, his soul too filled with dream to note the change in his companion's manner.
It is enough to go to see the 'Disciples at Emmaus, in the Louvre." Durtal, started on this theme, fell into a reverie over Rembrandt's strange conception of Christian æsthetics.
His dark eyes rested on Laodice, who sat transfixed with her sudden recognition of the visitor. He held in one hand a brace of fowls, in the other a skin of wine. When he spoke the polish of the Ephesian andronitis in his voice and manner destroyed the primitive illusion. "Lady, I heard in the synagogue at Emmaus to-day the exclusion that is laid upon you for seven days.
Our host is a very jolly man, and the dinner was a merrier and noisier one than any English dinner within my experience. February 8th. Luke's account of the agony, the trial, the crucifixion, and the resurrection; and how Christ appeared to the two disciples, on their way to Emmaus, and afterwards to a company of disciples.
It was the same old hypocritical pose that the bad man assumes to cloak himself before innocence. Laodice remembered the incident in the hills. "Where," she asked coldly, "is he who was with you at Emmaus?" The pretender started a little, but the increase of alarm on his face showed that he realized next that here was a peril in this woman which he had overlooked.
Shall we charge down upon them, and sweep them from the face of the earth?" Giorgias glanced again northward at Emmaus and the smoking ruins of the Syrian camp; then southward, where the little compact force in the valley was clustering round the standard of Maccabeus.
Ever since he could remember, her chair at this hour of the day had been in that corner, and low over it had always hung, just as it hung now, that Picture so often explained to him, "The Walk to Emmaus." How calm and quiet his mother was; and the room, how still and cool after that crowded street!
Mark" and of Gian Bellini's "Supper at Emmaus" have attracted attention and are much esteemed. <b>PASSE, MAGDALENA VAN DE.</b> Born at Utrecht about 1600; she died at the age of forty. This engraver was a daughter of Crispus van de Passe, the elder. She practised her art in Germany, England, Denmark, and the Netherlands, and was important as an artist.
Why did they not all continue to lament, as did the two of them on the road to Emmaus: 'We trusted that this had been He who should have redeemed Israel' but now we trust no more, and our dreams are buried in His grave? Why did they not go back to Galilee and their nets? What raised their spirits, their courage, and increased their understanding of Him, and their faith in Him?
To this period belongs also the Annunciation of the Virgin now in the Cathedral of Verona a rich, harmonious, and appropriate altar-piece, but not one of any special significance in the life-work of the painter. Shall we not, pretty much in agreement with Vasari, place here, just before the long-delayed visit to Rome, the Christ with the Pilgrims at Emmaus of the Louvre?
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