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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: A Gdańsk panel of the Pitié-de-Nostre-Seigneur: notes on the iconography
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13. The Pitić-de-Nostre-Seigneur, Anonymous master,
XVth century, Rome (after Heitz)
accepit).i0 The author of this text states that Abraham offered his sacrifice of Isaac destroying
thus the promise given him by God — therefore the event prefigures Passion of Christ. But
the Patriarch believed in the power of God to resuscitate Isaac and he recovered his son —
hence, the recovery of Isaac prefigures Resurrection of Our Lord. Thus, in this event of the
Old Dispensation two aspects of the mystery of Christ find their prefiguration — Passion. in
the very offering of Isaac and Resurrection in the recovery of Isaac by Abraham.
Patristic literaturę, Greek and Latin as well, abounded in commentaries and treatises, the
main idea of which was in a lapidary way, worded by St Ambrose: Isaac Christi passionis est
typus. This concept was developed and commented by mediaeval writers as our selection of
excerpts will prove from the authors who commented the whole corpus paulinum.
Alto (924—960), bishop of Vercelli recognized to be a compilator rather than an original
thinker41 (we may rightly consider him as an exponent of Western acąuaintance with Patristic
literary tradition and especially that of St Jerome and St Augustine) wrote: Unde et in pa-
40. Hebr. 11, 17, 19.
41. Lexikon fiir Theohgie und Kirche, I, 1957, col. 1019.
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XVth century, Rome (after Heitz)
accepit).i0 The author of this text states that Abraham offered his sacrifice of Isaac destroying
thus the promise given him by God — therefore the event prefigures Passion of Christ. But
the Patriarch believed in the power of God to resuscitate Isaac and he recovered his son —
hence, the recovery of Isaac prefigures Resurrection of Our Lord. Thus, in this event of the
Old Dispensation two aspects of the mystery of Christ find their prefiguration — Passion. in
the very offering of Isaac and Resurrection in the recovery of Isaac by Abraham.
Patristic literaturę, Greek and Latin as well, abounded in commentaries and treatises, the
main idea of which was in a lapidary way, worded by St Ambrose: Isaac Christi passionis est
typus. This concept was developed and commented by mediaeval writers as our selection of
excerpts will prove from the authors who commented the whole corpus paulinum.
Alto (924—960), bishop of Vercelli recognized to be a compilator rather than an original
thinker41 (we may rightly consider him as an exponent of Western acąuaintance with Patristic
literary tradition and especially that of St Jerome and St Augustine) wrote: Unde et in pa-
40. Hebr. 11, 17, 19.
41. Lexikon fiir Theohgie und Kirche, I, 1957, col. 1019.
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