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God Inviting Christ to Sit on the Throne at His Right Hand, painting by Pieter de Grebber (1645). The Holy Spirit is visible as a dove at the top of the image.. The right hand of God is a phrase used in the Bible and common speech as a metaphor for the omnipotence of God and as a motif in art.
The symbols of the four Evangelists are here depicted in the Book of Kells. The four winged creatures symbolize, top to bottom, left to right: Matthew , Mark , Luke , and John . Matthew the Evangelist , the author of the first gospel account, is symbolized by a winged man, or angel .
The motif of the hand, with no body attached, provides a problem for the artist in how to terminate it. In Christian narrative images the hand most often emerges from a small cloud, at or near the top of the image, but in iconic contexts it may appear cut off in the picture space, or spring from a border, or a victor's wreath (left).
However the more ancient explanation of the dove as a Christian symbol refers to it as a symbol of Christ himself: Irenaeus [20] in the 2nd century explains that the number 801 is both the numerological value of the sum in Greek of the letters of the word "dove" (Greek: περιστερά) and the sum of the values of the letters Alpha and ...
The dove also parallels the one that brought the olive branch to Noah after the deluge, as a symbol of peace. [5] The book of Acts describes the Holy Spirit descending on the apostles at Pentecost in the form of a wind and tongues of fire resting over the apostles' heads. Based on that account, the Holy Spirit is sometimes symbolized by a flame ...
Free Methodist Church logo. In the Free Methodist Church, the cross and flame logo is used to symbolize the "Holy Spirit spreading across the entire world". [4] The globe (on which the cross and flame are superimposed) alludes to John Wesley's dictum for Methodist believers: "The world is my parish" representing the missional purpose of the Church. [11]
"Church Symbolism: An Explanation of the more Important Symbols of the Old and New Testament, the Primitive, the Mediaeval and the Modern Church" by Frederick Roth Webber (2nd. edition, 1938). OCLC 236708 (Convenient overview from the point of view of Christian symbolism; also, the earliest attestation of the exact phrase "Shield of the Trinity ...
The Hand of God symbol in the Ascension from the Drogo Sacramentary, c. 850 The Hand of God , an artistic metaphor, is found several times in the only ancient synagogue with a large surviving decorative scheme, the Dura Europos Synagogue of the mid-3rd century, and was probably adopted into Early Christian art from Jewish art .