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Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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"THE ONLY TRUE PORTRAIT OF OUR SAVIOR.
"The picture on the other side is the copy of a cut in
emerald, which was made at the order of the Emperor Ti-
berius and kept in the treasury at Constantinople. Later
on, the original was used by the Emperor of the Turks as a
ransom for his brother who had at the time, under Pope In-
nocent V, been captured by the christians. The faithful-
ness of the picture is shown through Publius Lentulus, at
that time governor of Judea, in whose writings to the
senate and the Roman people a passage is found of which
the following is a translation:
" 'There has appeared in these days a very virtuous
man, Jesus Christ by name, who is still living among us an
dis looked upon as a prophet by the heathens, but by his
own disciples he is called Son of God. He raises people
from the dead and heals all kinds of disease. A man of
somewhat tall and imposing stature and of very venerable
appearance, so that those who see him are led both to fear
and to love him. His hair has the color of a fully ripened
hazelnut, almost smooth down to the ears; from there on
it is somewhat curled, flowing over his shoulders, and of
more nearly oriental color; after the manner of the Naza-
renes it is parted in the middle. His forehead is free and
smooth, his face without spots or wrinkles, beautiful, of a
pleasing red. Nose and mouth have a form with which no
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Portrait of our Savior.

WANDERIN3S IN BIBLE LANDS. 79

fault can be found. The beard is full, its color matching
well with that of the hair, not very long. His eyes are
gray, clear and full of life; his body is well formed and
firmly built, his hands and arms in good proportion. In
censure he is terrible, in admonition kind and fascinating,
in his speech temperate, wise and modest, joined with
dignity. No one can recall that he has seen him laugh, but
many have seen him weep'.
"A man surpassing the children of men in his singular
beauty." The traveler in Europe will find, in many of the shops
where pictures are sold, numerous so-called portraits of our
Savior. In price they range from a few pennies for the
cheaper lithographs to large sums of money for the beau-
tiful copies, in oil colors, of the masterpieces of Guido
Michael Angelo and Raphael. It is said that Raphael's
head of Christ in the great transfiguration scene has never
been equaled. The face has a glorified beauty about it that
is marvelous.

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