Saulieu Judas
Wonderful carving by Gislebertus. Satan here encourages Judas in his death.
It has only just occurred to me, the significance of Judas' death. Like Christ, he hung on a Tree, unlike Christ, at his own hands. It seems to me to show the two aspects of the Tree as seen in Genesis, which according to legend, was originally known to our first parents as the Tree of Death. It was only after the promise of salvation, and the planting of the seeds granted by the Angelic Guardian to Seth, Adam's son, that it was re-named the Tree of Life.
Saulieu Judas
Wonderful carving by Gislebertus. Satan here encourages Judas in his death.
It has only just occurred to me, the significance of Judas' death. Like Christ, he hung on a Tree, unlike Christ, at his own hands. It seems to me to show the two aspects of the Tree as seen in Genesis, which according to legend, was originally known to our first parents as the Tree of Death. It was only after the promise of salvation, and the planting of the seeds granted by the Angelic Guardian to Seth, Adam's son, that it was re-named the Tree of Life.