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Plate 1-XCIII
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PLATE LXXIII.
THE SOUL.
Fig. 13. An Angel is presenting the Soul in prayer towards the Virgin and Child; probably in
allusion to the verse in the Revelation, viii. 4.: “ The smoke of the incense, which
came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.”
From sculpture in Lincoln Cathedral, called the “ Angel’s Choir 13th century. (28.)
14. In this instance, a saint is offering up a prayer, and the Soul is ascending upwards, in
the same attitude. Both have the nimbus around the head. From a French MS. of
the end of the 14th century. (38.)
PLATE LXXIII.
THE SOUL.
Fig. 13. An Angel is presenting the Soul in prayer towards the Virgin and Child; probably in
allusion to the verse in the Revelation, viii. 4.: “ The smoke of the incense, which
came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.”
From sculpture in Lincoln Cathedral, called the “ Angel’s Choir 13th century. (28.)
14. In this instance, a saint is offering up a prayer, and the Soul is ascending upwards, in
the same attitude. Both have the nimbus around the head. From a French MS. of
the end of the 14th century. (38.)