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I like Gilliam van der Gouwen’s take. I sure as heck would look startled!

It’s crystal clear from the text and the context that Zechariah was alone with the Angel, who all those other people so many artists added? (The local PTB? Other Biblical figures out of time and space? Or?)

[Hebrews 11:6]

Before beginning this series the idea had never occurred to me that artists might misrepresent the scriptural text. How naive I was! It is an everyday event, and you have zeroed in on today's.

In retrospect, had the subject occurred to me, I should have expected it, human nature being what it is: fallible, malicious, self-serving....