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Icon nb 70
Size : 20 x 25 cm.
Linden board
Gilded halo. Egg tempera.
Thomas is as much to say as abysm or double, which in Greek is said didimus. He was abysm or swallow because he deserved to pierce the deepness of divinity, when at his interrogation Jesus Christ answered to him: Ego sum via, veritas et vita: I am the way, truth, and life. He is said double because he knew Christ in his resurrection in double wise more than other knew, for they knew him but only in seeing, but Thomas knew him both seeing and feeling. Or Thomas is said as, appeared again, that is in the love of God by contemplation. He had there things in him of which Prosper saith in the book of the Soul Contemplative, and demandeth what it is for to love nothing but to conceive the burning of him in his thought, and the talent of God, and the hate of sin, and to forsake the world. Or Thomas is as much to say as alway going in the love and contemplation of God. Or Thomas is as much as: My God, because he said, when he touched the side of our Lord: My God and my Lord.
The Golden Legend
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