DOI Artikel:
Ratkowska, Paulina: Intelligens diabolus se per Christum spolia amissurum [...], Christ before Pilate: the Panel of the Toruń Polyptych
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4. Pilate with the devil,
o detail of the panel
of the Door of St. Michael
church in Hildesheim
(Phot. Courtesy
of Prof. George Żarnecki)
opinions as to who had sent the dream to her. Some believed that it was the
devil" himself, who manifested his presence by tormenting Pilate’s wife
with fears and, almost flogging her, madę her try to release Christ. According
to other theologians, it was an angel16 or Divine Proyidence,1' while Gęsta
Pilati18 madę known that it was Christ himself.
Nonę of the New Testament commentators says what precisely Pilate’s
wife saw in her dream and why she suffered so badly.14 Why would the devil
want Christ released?
Feeling that the Jews are on the brink of persuading Pilate to pass his
sentence on Jesus and that by his Harrowing of Heli the Crucified would
For example Paschasius Radbertus, “Expositio in Matth. Lib. XII”, in Patrologiae Cursus
Completus. Series Latina, ed. by J.P. Mignę, vol. CXX, col. 937-938: “nonnuli dicunt hanc
visionem a diabolo immissam [...]”; Hrabanus Maurus, “Commentariorum in Matthaeum libri
VIII”, in PL, vol. CVII, col. 1131 (also Bede the Venerable, St. Bernard of Clairvaux and others).
16 Christianus Druthmarus, “Expositio in Matthaeum”, in PL, vol. CVI, col. 1487: “Ab angelis
videlicet [...]”
1 Paschasius Radbertus, op. cit., col. 937-938: “[...] alii vero dicunt bonitate Dei factum
fuisse sicut quam saepe gentilibus a Deo somnia revelata leguntur [...]” (also Origen, St. Hilary,
St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine and others), cf. Fascher, op. cit.
18 “[...] ecce somniorum fantasma misit (=Jesus) ad uxorem tuam”, after: “Gęsta Pilati”, in
Euangelia Apocrypha, op. cit., pp. 359-360.
19 Cf. Paschasius Radbertus, op. cit.: “Quid autem viderit per visum non exponit Evangelista, vel
a quo passa sit, et ideo data est facultas nostris aliter vel aliter hanc visionem interpretandi.”
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o detail of the panel
of the Door of St. Michael
church in Hildesheim
(Phot. Courtesy
of Prof. George Żarnecki)
opinions as to who had sent the dream to her. Some believed that it was the
devil" himself, who manifested his presence by tormenting Pilate’s wife
with fears and, almost flogging her, madę her try to release Christ. According
to other theologians, it was an angel16 or Divine Proyidence,1' while Gęsta
Pilati18 madę known that it was Christ himself.
Nonę of the New Testament commentators says what precisely Pilate’s
wife saw in her dream and why she suffered so badly.14 Why would the devil
want Christ released?
Feeling that the Jews are on the brink of persuading Pilate to pass his
sentence on Jesus and that by his Harrowing of Heli the Crucified would
For example Paschasius Radbertus, “Expositio in Matth. Lib. XII”, in Patrologiae Cursus
Completus. Series Latina, ed. by J.P. Mignę, vol. CXX, col. 937-938: “nonnuli dicunt hanc
visionem a diabolo immissam [...]”; Hrabanus Maurus, “Commentariorum in Matthaeum libri
VIII”, in PL, vol. CVII, col. 1131 (also Bede the Venerable, St. Bernard of Clairvaux and others).
16 Christianus Druthmarus, “Expositio in Matthaeum”, in PL, vol. CVI, col. 1487: “Ab angelis
videlicet [...]”
1 Paschasius Radbertus, op. cit., col. 937-938: “[...] alii vero dicunt bonitate Dei factum
fuisse sicut quam saepe gentilibus a Deo somnia revelata leguntur [...]” (also Origen, St. Hilary,
St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine and others), cf. Fascher, op. cit.
18 “[...] ecce somniorum fantasma misit (=Jesus) ad uxorem tuam”, after: “Gęsta Pilati”, in
Euangelia Apocrypha, op. cit., pp. 359-360.
19 Cf. Paschasius Radbertus, op. cit.: “Quid autem viderit per visum non exponit Evangelista, vel
a quo passa sit, et ideo data est facultas nostris aliter vel aliter hanc visionem interpretandi.”
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