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This, then, symbolizes the removal of spiritual death and the impartation of everlasting life in this world and immortality in the next. The tree of life grew on both sides of the river. On this side of the line of mortality we have access to it in one important sense, while those in the future world are preserved also by its healing benefits. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit abide in this city.
Above is a figure of a hawk, symbolizing the Upper Egyptian king, holding a rope which is passed through the nose of a Semitic head, while behind is a sign which may be read as "the North," so that the whole symbolizes the leading away of the North into captivity by the king of the South.
"The analogies of the natural world to human life are good, for the rocky shore symbolizes the highest power of the human soul, which is endurance rather than action. To most persons such characters seem vapid and sentimental, lacking force and tone, and generally unfitted for the enterprises of the world.
I attach all importance to a state of things which takes for granted that women stand on a level with children." "So they do with an inappreciable number of exceptions. You must be perfectly well aware of that." "And so you expect me to be satisfied with it? I insist on the franchise, because it symbolizes full citizenship. I won't aim at anything less than that.
'iota' stands for 'Jesus, 'chi' for 'Christ, 'theta' and 'gamma' for 'the Son of God, and 'sigma' for 'Saviour, so that the fish symbolizes under its name 'iota chi theta gamma sigma, 'Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour." "What means this picture that I see so often a ship and a huge sea monster?" "That is Jonah, a prophet of God, of whom as yet you are ignorant."
The fact that the action of the poem is chiefly made of single combat with supernatural creatures and that there is not tapestry figured with radiant gods drawn between the life of men and the ultimate darkness, gives a peculiar and notable character to the way Beowulf symbolizes the primary courage of life.
Their faces seemed to me notable for that which I have no doubt the painter intended to express, the pure abstraction of reverent adoration, unmingled with human sympathies. The face and figure of the Divine Infant are full of majesty, as he holds his hands in blessing towards the spectator, who symbolizes the world which He has come to save.
Like baptism, it is a worthless and meaningless rite unless the man and the woman have been born again into the Spirit, released from the law. If they are still, as St. Paul would say, in the flesh, let them have, if they wish, a civil permit to live together, for the Spirit can have nothing to do with such an union. True to herself, the Church symbolizes the union of her members, the reborn.
But the "beast" of chapter 17 himself, as distinguished from his horns, symbolizes the Holy Roman Empire, which was a revival of the old empire of the Cæsars. This revived "world-empire" was closely allied to the Papacy. When Charlemagne, the Carlovingian king, restored the empire of the West, he was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III., A.D. 800.
An obelisk of the Pharaohs in ancient Rome was an august captive, symbolizing the university of the Roman Empire, but an obelisk of the Pharaohs in London symbolizes little more than did the Druidical ring of stones which an English squire of my acquaintance purchased in one of the Channel Islands and set up in his English park.
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