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TITLE: Christmas Eve CALL NUMBER: PGA - Hoover, J.--Christmas Eve (D size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-01601 (digital file from original print) LC-USZ62-49683 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 print. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [no date recorded on shelflist card] NOTES:
The vinedresser, who is Jesus, does not fail and has offered to cultivate it and so it will produce fruit. The owner is an absentee landlord, only visiting his vineyard once a year. The law regarding first fruits, Leviticus 19:23–25, [9] forbids eating fruit from a tree in its first three years. The vinedresser has disposed of the fruit ...
Use of the fig plant in particular came about as a Biblical reference to the Book of Genesis, in which Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover their nudity after eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. [2] [3] A "fig-leaf edition" of a work is known as an expurgation or Bowdlerization.
Most scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark was the first gospel and was used as a source by the authors of Matthew and Luke. [12] Mark uses the cursing of the barren fig tree to bracket and comment on the story of the Jewish temple: Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem when Jesus curses a fig tree because it bears no fruit; in Jerusalem he drives the money-changers from the ...
In Western Christian art, the fruit of the tree is commonly depicted as the apple, which originated in central Asia. This depiction may have originated as a Latin pun: by eating the mālum (apple), Eve contracted malum (evil). [25] [26] [27] According to the Bible, there is nothing to show the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of ...
Adam and Eve is a pair of paintings by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, dating from 1528, [1] housed in the Uffizi, Florence, Italy. The two biblical ancestors are portrayed, in two different panels, on a dark background, standing on a barely visible ground. Both hold two small branches which cover their sexual organs.
A Christmas Eve candlelight service in Baghdad, Iraq. Christmas Eve is celebrated in different ways around the world, varying by country and region. Elements common to many areas of the world include the attendance of special religious observances such as a midnight Mass or Vespers and the giving and receiving of presents.
Schlumbergera truncata, the false Christmas cactus, [1] is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. Because it produces a flower, it also belongs to the taxonomic group Magnoliophyta and is thus considered an angiosperm. [ 2 ]