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| Jacob's Ladder, fresco, 1546-47 Dyonisiou Monastery, Mount Athos |
The Old Testament reveals images, figures and symbols that which Isaiah wrote: "The Lord Himself will give you a sign "(Isaiah 7:14 ). Mother of the Saviour, the Virgin Mary plays an undeniable role in the victory against the evil forces.
messianic prophecies have announced as the urn, the bat, the tables of the Act, the mountain inviolate.
On the scale contemplated in a dream by Jacob (Genesis 28.12 to 13), the angels come and go between two worlds. Tradition sees the foreshadowing of the Virgin by God that link earth to heaven. In the burning bush that burns without being consumed Moses sees the symbol of that which brought the fire of divinity without being consumed ( Exodus 3, 1-18 ). The prophet Daniel
the announcement as "the holy mountain which was carved without the man's hand had touched, the cornerstone that struck the statue of the tyrant spiritual" (Daniel 2.34) .
icon in " Mother of God icon of the new humanity"
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