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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A flaming sword is featured in the printer's device of Jean Gerard, a printer in Geneva
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This wood-engraving of the siege of a city, complete with cannons and assault ladders, adorned the title page of Ein vermanlied, a pro-Lutheran war song from the time of the Schmalkald War (1546-1547)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Holy Spirit descends on Jesus' followers at Pentecost
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Job, naked and covered with sores, sits before his wife. His possessions burn in the background, and the two men (left) who are departing may be messengers who had brought him news of the disasters befalling him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: On Pentecost the Holy Spirit descended as a dove on the disciples of Jesus, amazing all who witnessed this
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The prophet Elijah stands by as the fire of God comes down from heaven and consumes a Samarian captain and his fifty men. The King of Samaria watches from his sickbed
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: King Antiochus burns Jerusalem
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: On Pentecost the Holy Spirit appears as a doveflames of fire on the disciples' heads
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The armies of heaven defeat the armies of the beast. Armored figures are shown riding horses with armor; an angel flies overhead, and the seven-headed beast falls below into flames.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Babylon is consumed by flames and merchants wail, two angels fly overhead. Open book.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: On Pentecost the Holy Spirit appears in the form of a dove and a flame appears above the heads of Jesus' disciples
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This depiction of the last judgment adorned the title-page of Otto Brunfels' (1488-1534) work on the "Christian Regimen"." He had been a Carthusian monk and later a physician in Bern
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The printer’s device of Heinrich Petri (1508-1579) is based on that of his father, Adam Petri, and involves a wordplay on the family name (petrus = stone). Adam, Heinrich, and Sebastian Petri used altogether 27 different printer's devices, and 18 of these were variants of the design illustrated ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The angels and armies of God defeat the armies of the beast in the heavens, and the beast is thrown into the lake of fire.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The city of Babylon burns, as one angel throws a millstone into the sea and another rejoices in midair. Merchants standing nearby are griefstricken.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The seventh seal. Angels with trumpets are at the altar before God. Thunder, lightning, earthquakes, hail, and fire afflict the earth, and ships are destroyed.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The priests Nadab and Abihu are destroyed by fire from God.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: With Israel in the background near their tents, Moses is shown before the luminous face of God, emerging from clouds, lightening, and fire on Mount Sinai.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Lot is led away from Sodom and Gomorrah by two angels, his two daughters trailing behind, the pillar of salt that once was his wife is visible on the road at a distanceand and fire rains from heaven on the cities
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are visible in the fiery furnace, while the two soldiers who placed them there are consumed with fire, and two men (Nebuchadnezzar and an advisor) stand by discussing what they see.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Job is afflicted with disease and is shown with his wife, as houses burn in the background and armed men on hourseback drive off his livestock.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Elijah is taken up into heaven in a fiery chariot, Elisha stands below in the posture of prayer. Later, with the mantle of Elijah in hand, Elisha is tormented by a group of boys, whom a bear attacks. A city is visible in the background.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: On Pentecost the Holy Spirit descended as a dove on the disciples of Jesus
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Egyptian soldiers with their horses are drowned in the sea, as the Israelites look on and a torch flames in the sky overhead.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Having broken down the gate of Hell/Hades, Jesus proclaims salvation to those within. The demonic beasts of the netherworld threaten him from above and below. This was to have occurred between Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Cain murders Abel with a club in the midst of a grove of trees, as their respective sacrifices (grain for Cain, and a lamb of the flock for Abel) appear in the background
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Holy Spirit appears as a dove above the assembled disciples Mary, and flames of fire appear over their heads
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A Jewish mother and her other sons look on as the Greek king has one of her sons mutilated and cooked on a fire.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As a fire blazes on an altar outside with slaughtered lambs/sheep at its base, and priestly figures place loaves of bread on the altar, inside a group of men stand about a table and eat the Passover with their staffs in hand.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Acts 2 describes the Holy Spirit descending on the disciples at Pentecost
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: With the fire on the altar and a sheep on the ground before it, King Solomon with crown and scepter teaches the assembled people, who assume the posture of prayer with clasped hands.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A fire burning outside, a priest reads from a book to a king, seated on his throne with scepter in hand, surrounded by his advisors.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Daniel is shown in the fiery furnace, as King Nebuchadnezzar watches on horseback and sees that some of his own servants have been killed by the flames.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Calendar illustration for December