his Side with a Spear, which latter Circumfiance is 
like wife mentioned only in the Gofpel of St. John {a). 
As the Model is cut out of an oaken Board, it may 
probably, notwithftanding its Thinnefs, be old enough, 
to confift with the Time of that Spelling 5 but that 
it can be fo antient as the Year home expe- 
rienced Workmen, to whom I fhewed it, think it 
wholly incredible. 
The Explication here given may be further con- 
firmed by the fymbolical Figures underneath, which 
feem to be defigned as an Emblem of the Trinity 
joined with the Crofs. And it is well known, that 
St. John has treated more largely upon the Diviniry 
of Chrift, than any of the other Evangelifts. 'Plu- 
tarch informs us, that Xenocrates the Philofopher 
refembled the Deity to an equilateral Triangle, the 
Genii to an Ifofceles , and Men to a Scalenum (b). 
And a triangular Figure has been ftnee applied by 
Chriftians to reprefent the Trinity, fometimes fingly,. 
and at other times with additional Lines exprltling a 
Crofs, as in this Model. So we find them varioufly 
combined upon the Medals of the Popes publifhed 
by Bonanni (r). And nothing was more frequent 
formerly with Printers, than to place thefc complex 
Figures in the Front of their Books, at firft doubtlefs 
(a) Chap. xix. 34. 
( £) n apcJ.Seiyy.a- Si Ta hoy to SsvoK^rtif y.iv 0 TlhaTayaf 
iTcugp; i7roiiV7a,To to tuv retyeovav, 3-eiu y.iv i-retKciaao to }ao- 
Thiv£pv y •SriTa Si To anahuvov, to Si i<ro<rx,ihi{ Sa/yoviu’ to y.iv 
yci<> 'i<rov TtdvTw to Si avicov vrdvTYi' to Si tto y.iv ’i<rov, cr it S’ avttrov, 
v Sa.ty.ovuv <p6ius 'lyvaa Tta-Soo brwTa ^ Stii Svvay.iv ► 
De defeClu oraculorum , edit. H. Sccph. 1572. Vol. I. p. 740. 
(c) Nuinijmata Po?/t. Rom. cd. Rom. 1699. fol. 
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