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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Imago Pietatis: its meaning and function
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18819#0014
the Passion begins: PATER ME SI POSSIBILE TRANSEAT A ME (calix isłe verum tamen non
sicut ego volo, sed sicut tu). This announcement is inscribed on the scroll held by St Matthew the
Evangelist shown nearby.31 Above, King David holds a scroll with the verse of his Psalm,
extolling the Passion of Messiah and its saving fmits32in the way analogous to the FourthCanticle
of Isaiah: OMNES VIDENTES ME DERISERUNT ME. On the right, Christ is standing as the
humble Man of Sorrows — „obedient unto death, even the death of the cross" (factus obediens
usąue ad mortem). The text: ECCE VIDIMUS EUM NON HABENTEM SPECIEM33 on the
scroll held by Isaiah testifies that Jesus is here identified with the Suffering Servant of Jahve-
Humility has assumed the central place in the theology of the Scriptures.34 The link between
the Oldtestamental devotion and that of the New Covenant has constituted the story of the
childhood of Christ in St Luke's Gospel. The participants of this narrative reveal their humility
3. Christ in Gethsemane and Imago Pictatis, Erfurt painter, ca 1350, Erfurt,
Anger-Museum (after Stange)
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sicut ego volo, sed sicut tu). This announcement is inscribed on the scroll held by St Matthew the
Evangelist shown nearby.31 Above, King David holds a scroll with the verse of his Psalm,
extolling the Passion of Messiah and its saving fmits32in the way analogous to the FourthCanticle
of Isaiah: OMNES VIDENTES ME DERISERUNT ME. On the right, Christ is standing as the
humble Man of Sorrows — „obedient unto death, even the death of the cross" (factus obediens
usąue ad mortem). The text: ECCE VIDIMUS EUM NON HABENTEM SPECIEM33 on the
scroll held by Isaiah testifies that Jesus is here identified with the Suffering Servant of Jahve-
Humility has assumed the central place in the theology of the Scriptures.34 The link between
the Oldtestamental devotion and that of the New Covenant has constituted the story of the
childhood of Christ in St Luke's Gospel. The participants of this narrative reveal their humility
3. Christ in Gethsemane and Imago Pictatis, Erfurt painter, ca 1350, Erfurt,
Anger-Museum (after Stange)
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