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Title: Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Arthur H
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Animals in art Church architecture Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : Sir I. Pitman & sons,ltd.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE his Metamorphoses (xv. 392) alludes to itsself-recreation, and the story is copied as anargument for the Resurrection by Tertullianand Ambrose, though other fathers throwdoubt on the story. Mr. E. P. Evans statesthat the phoenix was sculptured on pagancinerary urns. In the Septuagint version ofPs. xcii. 11, the righteous shall flourish likea palm tree, it is uncertain whether phcenixor palm tree was meant, as the Greek wordis precisely the same for both. Bede took the analogous passage of Jobxxix. 18 to mean : I shall multiply mydays as the phoenix/ and the Revised Versionmargin suggests the same rendering. Theconfusion in the Greek translation is, ofcourse, due to the ambiguity of the originalHebrew. Curiously enough, the palm tree, which hadconsiderable symbolic significance among theJews owing to its fruitfulness and beauty,is associated in early Christian art with thephoenix. Thus, on a glass vessel in theVatican Library there is a nimbed phcenixon a pa

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