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Identifier: palmtree00mood
Title: The palm tree
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Moody, Sophy
Subjects: Palms Trees in the Bible
Publisher: London : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row Edinburgh, and New York
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Smphtre Hotkcs oi ^a(ms. HE figure of a captive woman seated beneath apalm tree was chosen as the symbol of Judeaby her conquerors. The device is to be seenon coins of tlie Roman emperors Vespasianand Titus. How unconscious were they of the deep sig-nificance of their choice; and yet throughoutthe heathen world the palm tree was the recog-nised emblem of victory and light. Strange choice suchsymbol for a conquered land—to us how significant! Emblem of victory for that Holy Land where, at themoment preceding its final conquest, when, as a nation, itshould cease to exist, commenced its more extended andimperi.-ihable empire over the hearts of men—a wider empirethan, in its proudest days, it would have dared to contem-plate. Emblem of light—fit emblem too for that fair country ofthe East where the true Light had arisen which should givelight to all the world. Prophetic, as it were, of this link which the future shouldthus unfold, we find the crowned tree assume a position inthe his
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