In the fourth window we have:
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Type The Circumcision of Isaac. |
Type The visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon. |
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Antitype The Circumcision of Christ. |
Antitype The visit of the Wise Men to Christ. |
The face of Abraham and that of the officiating priest below are both good, and so is that of the Queen. The Epiphany Star is a fine object, and the effect of its light irradiating the thatch of the manger-shed is most powerfully rendered.
The fifth window gives us
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Type The Legal Purification of a woman. |
Type Jacob's flight from the vengeance of Esau. |
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Antitype The Purification of Mary. |
Antitype The Flight into Egypt. |
In the Purification scene the faces of Simeon, who is the main figure, Mary, and Joseph (carrying the dove-cage), are all worth looking at. So is Joseph in the Flight episode; which, however, is chiefly remarkable for introducing in the back-ground a legend from a late carol, which tells how Herod's soldiers pursued the Holy Family, and how the pursuit was miraculously checked. The fugitives met a husbandman, and instructed him to answer any inquiry for them by saying, "They passed whilst I was sowing this corn"; which was actually the case. But, lo! when the pursuers shortly came up the corn had sprung up, and was ripe already to harvest. It takes some little trouble to decipher this scene. The Purification is seen through an arcade of the Temple, on the frieze of which is a group of classical horsemen like those of the Parthenon.
The next window is that over the great organ screen dividing the ante-chapel from the choir. It is arranged thus:
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Type The Golden Calf (the introduction of Idolatry). |
Type The Massacre of the Seed Royal by Queen Athaliah. |
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Antitype The idols of Egypt falling before the Holy Child (the overthrow of Idolatry). |
Antitype The Massacre of the Innocents by King Herod. |