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[picture: Front Cover]

Images from Bible Symbols: The Choicest Passages of God’s Word put in the Fascinating Garb of Pictures by Frank Beard [1842 – 1905] and others; text prepared by Martha Van Marter [born 1839]; Chicago, 1908.

The book is a sort of rebus, in which pictures stand for words, and perhaps help people to remember phrases from the Bible, although not necessarily to understand them or to learn love and tolerance.

Title: Bible Symbols

Author: Beard, Frank

Published by: The John A. Hertel Co.

City: Chicago, Toronto, Boston

Date: 1908

Total items: 37

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

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[picture: The Good Shepherd]

The Good Shepherd

ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Money Chest: The Treasurey (Coloured version)]

Money Chest: The Treasurey (Coloured version)

I coloured a copy of the Money Chest: The Treasury to make the pile of coins really gold (well, yellow) and the wood be brown. [more...] [$]

[picture: Hands from p. 69]

Hands from p. 69

Hands, from the clip-art Bible. See page 69 for the context. [$]

[picture: 55.---As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,...]

55.—As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,...

The complete pair of verses from Deuteronomy chapter 32 verses 11 and 12, using the King James Bible of 1611, read as follows: [more...] [$]


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