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Trallsiiguratioli is anotheij incident, which
happened long before the Ascension, and is
recited in the ninth chapter of St. Luke:-_
" When the countenance of Jesus was changed,
and his clothing was white,
5-rsgov,
and he became
and
lightened."
The
robe
of
the
ascending
Christ is BLUE.
The painter brings different incidents together
to constitute one plot. The picture consists of
three
separate
combined
and
united
or action.
in one scheme
Jesus
ascending
perpendicularly
into
the
airs
clothed
in
blue raiment,
and
attended
by
two other figures.
Mount,
Some of his disciples on the
who
see the ascent,
and
lie
dazzled. and confounded
by the sight.
III. A number of persons at the bottom of
the Mount, who appear to look intently on
a young man possessed by a. devil, and con-
vulsed. None of them see the Ascension but