...use of to heighten her glory are innumerable.* On the suggestion of the passage in the Apocalypse, "A woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet," Christian artists portrayed their fancied intercessor with luminous radiance around her head, and the...

...into view, as a member of the mystical body of Christ ; described by John, the beloved disciple, as a woman clothed with the sun ; having the moon under her feet ; all terrestrial, changeable objects in subjection to Christ, the Sun (of righteousness. After sitting...

...acceptable, and perfect will of God." " Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed " — a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet I Let me leave one text with the children, a prayer — " 0 satisfy me early with thy mercy, that I...

...saints." IT may not be useless to call to our attention the contents of the preceding chapter. The woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars upon her head, is the Christian Church, as a catholic body, corporate and politic,...

...Stella Matutina," the morning star. THE SUN AND MOON reifer to her as the woman of the Apocalypse ; " A woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." THE STEM OF JESSE, is represented as a green branch twined with...

...hail : and then appeared a great sign in Heaven." — It was the Church under the imposing aspect of " a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars upon her head." She was clothed with the sun, because the glory of God is her...

...enemy of God and of human nature ; the final book of Revelations sets forth her unrivalled glory as the woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and crowned with the stars of heaven. In the history of her life from the wonderful embassy of an Archangel...

...soul's course is thus celebrated in the Apocalypse. " I beheld," says the seer, " a great wonder in heaven : a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head 1 Generation, degeneration, regeneration, — in these three terms is comprised the whole...

...soul's course is thus celebrated in the Apocalypse. " I beheld," says the seer, " a great wonder in heaven : a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head 1 Generation, degeneration, regeneration,—in these three terms is comprised the whole...

...principles of religious faith and life, as the sun and moon and stars in the apostle's vision of the woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. The ram caught by his horns in a thicket and offered in sacrifice...