singly-raised

Updated: May 1, 2025

The terrible words, as if audible to the mind, now direct us to him who pronounced his doom, and the singly-raised finger of the Apostle marks him the judge; yet not of himself, for neither his attitude, air, nor expression has any thing in unison with the impetuous Peter, he is now the simple, passive, yet awful instrument of the Almighty: while another on the right, with equal calmness, though with more severity, by his elevated arm, as beckoning to judgment, anticipates the fate of the entering Sapphira.

Washington Allston - Lectures on Art