The Bible In Paintings >>> 𝘾𝙃𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙊𝙇𝘿 𝙏𝙀𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 ✝️ Jacob Dreams of a Stairway to Heaven—Christ Is that Stairway! ✝️

[Hebrews 11:6]

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[Hebrews 11:6]

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[No name given]

Thanks for posting and God bless you for doing so.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks.

[Red Badger]

[etabeta]

Yes, Christ is the ladder that will take us to Heaven, to God.

Favorites are #3 Murillo
#7 Cigoli
#26 Dore’ and the fenster.

[Hebrews 11:6]

???????

[Red Badger]

That’s called a ‘Jacob’s Ladder’, and it’s a rather large one......................

[Hebrews 11:6]

I’ll see you on the ladder.

[etabeta]

One step at a time....

[conserv8]

With all the symbolic merging of man and beast some might see those steps as rungs of DNA.

“. . . lest thy nakedness be shown”

[Hebrews 11:6]

Herewith, a bit of sophomoric Latin doggerel I learned in the college dorm:

“Semper ubi sub ubi”

Always wear under wear

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you. I enjoy looking at religious art and seeing other people’s
concepts of what things would look like. Some I identify with, and
others not so much.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Something about variety being the spice of life....

I don’t censor artists or styles, because I never know which one the Holy Spirit wants to use to reach someone.

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, good point.

[Ezekiel]

-- Christ Is that Stairway!

I haven't come across any depictions of Jacob's Ladder as a musical scale or instrument (although 24 and 27 come close). Seems like it would help explain why angels are depicted playing on HÅRPs, because

a musical scale *is* a ladder, and...

A series of arpeggios in J. S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Translated over to musical instruments,

An arpeggio (Italian: [arˈpeddʒo]) is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order.

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In musical notation, a very rapid arpeggiated chord may be written with a wavy vertical line in front of the chord. Typically these are read as to be played from the lowest to highest note, though composers may specify a high to low sequence by adding an arrow pointing down.

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The word arpeggio comes from the Italian word arpeggiare, which means to play on a harp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio

What Is the Significance of King David's Harp

(He never left home without it, so to speak.)

[Red Badger]

Joy to the World can be played in one octave................

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Blake’s spiral staircase is very cool.

What always got me about this story is where Jacob goes and gets a stone to use as a pillow.

The dude was a tougher bloke than we are!

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Heavy duty arcing on disconnect...Nothing like O3 and the smell of Superheated metal!

[Red Badger]

I actually like the smell of ozone!...................