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Symbols of Four Evangelists
By J. SANSOM.
Among the several replies to Jartzberg's Query (Vol. i., p. 385.), I do not observe any notice of Sir T. Brown's account of the symbols of the four Evangelists. I will therefore copy part of a note I have on the subject, though see it is unfortunately without any other reference than the *name* of the author. After giving *Jonathan's* opinion of the four principal or legionary standards among the Israelites, Sir T. Brown adds: "But Abenegra and others, besides the colours of the field, do set down other charges,—in Reuben's, the form of a man or mandrake,—in that of Judah, a lion,—in Ephraim's…
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