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given with more animation farther on in the series (24 b). | ||
| 16, | b. | "In the same hour came forth fingers of a Man's hand" (v. 5).
Belshazzar's feast represented by the king alone, seated at a small oblong tables Beside him the youth Daniel, looking only fifteen or sixteen, graceful and gentle, interprets. At the side of the quatrefoil, out of a small wreath of cloud, comes a small bent hand, writing, as if with a pen upside down on a piece of Gothic wall.[1] For modern bombast as opposed to old simplicity, compare the Belshazzar's feast of John Martin! |
43. The next subject begins the series of the minor prophets.
| 17. Hosea. | ||
| 17. | a. | " So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and an homer of barley " (iii. 2).
The prophet pouring the grain and the silver into the lap of the woman, "beloved of her friend." The carved coins are each wrought with the cross, and, I believe, legend of the French contemporary coin. |
- ↑ I fear this hand has been broken since I described it; at all events. it is indistinguishably shapeless in the photograph (No. 10 of the series).
