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  • Wisdom

    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.

  • Thou Shalt Not Kill

    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

  • The Seventh Seal

    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.

  • The Schmalkald War

    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)

  • The Last Judgment

    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

  • The Last Battle

    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.

  • The Holy Spirit Descends on the Disciples

    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

  • The Firery Furnace

    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.

  • The Destruction of Nadab and Abihu

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The priests Nadab and Abihu are destroyed by fire from God.

  • The Destruction of Jerusalem

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: King Antiochus burns Jerusalem