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The Gospels do not mention the cave, it is Tradition tells us about these mysterious depths of the earth. The icon follows closely the liturgical texts and gives the interpretation most shocking: the dark triangle of the cave, the dark opening of her womb, is hell. To reach the abyss and become "the heart of creation, Christ is mystically his birth into the abyss where evil is languishing in its final density. Christ is born in the shadow of death, the Nativity inclined heaven to hell, and we contemplate, lying in the manger, "Lamb of Bethlehem who overcame the serpent and gave peace to the world."
Outside the cave, bearing the royal Pourpe the Basilissa - Theotokos the Queen - is extensive. Exhausted, she rests her head on her hand and her gaze is lost in contemplation of the Gospel of salvation "She kept all these words and pondered them in her heart" (Luke 2:19)
Mother, she But turns of the child ; All, she welcomes us and recognizes us the birth of his child, and at the same time it is presented in its own value: flower of the human plant, it is one in whom all humanity has pronounced the fiat. New Eve, Mother of all living, that's all it made her fiat, which is why it appears the Church. She responded by human fidelity to the fidelity of the divine promise
Paul Evdokimov, an Orthodox theologian in
"The art of the icon: theological vision" Mother, she But turns of the child ; All, she welcomes us and recognizes us the birth of his child, and at the same time it is presented in its own value: flower of the human plant, it is one in whom all humanity has pronounced the fiat. New Eve, Mother of all living, that's all it made her fiat, which is why it appears the Church. She responded by human fidelity to the fidelity of the divine promise
Paul Evdokimov, an Orthodox theologian in
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