This woodcut is taken from the title page of Johann von Staupitz’ tract on the love of God, written as a New Year’s greeting for some of the author’s friends and highly valued by Luther, who developed a close friendship with Staupitz. The woodcut depicts the Trinity, showing the crucified Jesus juxtaposed over against the bronze serpent that Moses lifted up in the wilderness to save all who gazed upon it from death by serpent bites (see Num. 21:4-9; John 3:14-16). The woman in the central position may be Mary Magdalene
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