• ABOUT:
  • 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia: (Read with caution)
  • Easton's Dictionary: (Read with caution -- Protestant bias. References are to King James Version.)
  • Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, p. 1.

• SYMBOLISM:
  • The soul prepared to ascend Mt. Sinai, although perhaps not to behold the Uncreated Light directly: St. Gregory Theologos, Orat. 28, ii.

• IMAGES:
  • Detail of a fresco III Century, Syrian ---Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Icon XVII Century, Slovakian ---Saris Museum at Bardejov, Slovakia
  • Icon XX Century, Greek ---St. Tikhon's Seminary Press

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