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To: marshmallow

If they’re going to build a statue of him, how do they know what he looked like? The Bible provides no description.


7 posted on 08/19/2015 7:46:05 PM PDT by Rufii
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To: Rufii

We Orthodox have a good idea of Our Lord’s appearance because of the agreement between the Palestianian school of iconography and the Icon-Not-Made-by-Hands preserved first in Edessa, then in Constantinople for centuries. All Orthodox iconography of Our Lord is based on those sources, just as iconography of the Theotokos is based on the icons painted from life by St. Luke the Evangelist.


8 posted on 08/19/2015 7:59:06 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Rufii
If they’re going to build a statue of him, how do they know what he looked like? The Bible provides no description.

He was Semitic-looking. Dark skin, luminous brown eyes and hair. He was beautiful, and yet no one could ever remember precisely how he looked after they saw Him, even though they always immediately recognized Him afterwards. The most striking thing about Him was the feeling of dissolving into pure love you got when He looked at you, even in the shortest glance, and how that feeling would stay strong with you for days afterwards.

11 posted on 08/19/2015 10:03:46 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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