From these words it would appear that Christ had begun to move away and Peter to follow, as if to symbolize the higher sense in which Peter was one day to tread in His footsteps.
The images intended to symbolize the invisible perfections of God were usurping the place of God, and receiving the worship due alone to him.
They symbolize the union of hearts among those who have suffered by a common bereavement.
Satow says, with regard to a different ceremony: "The high priest waves before the company a sort of broom made of grass, to symbolize the sweeping away of their offences.
Although generally, it did not alwayssymbolize the sun, or the power of which the sun is an emblem; but, invested with various meanings, it entered widely into the primitive mythologies.
Faber says--"The ancient pagans, in almost every part of the globe, were wont to symbolize the world by an Egg.
As the male serpent," says Faber, "was employed to symbolize the Great Father, so the female serpent was equally used to typify the Great Mother.
While the doves, as we have seen, may be regarded as emblematic of the beatified spirits of the departed, the sheep more appropriately symbolize those who, still in the flesh, go in and out and find pasture.
A silence fell upon the room, a silence that seemed to symbolize the 'biffing' of the doctor's son by old French.
You've taken my criticism so sweetly that the change can't symbolize so much as I feared.
But with this proposition that the prostitutes were priestesses attached to the Ishtar cult and who look part in ceremonies intended to symbolize fertility, we must for the present rest content.
Moreover, Ninib and Marduk, as solar deities, symbolize the sun of spring, which brings about the revivification of nature.
What these trees symbolize is not known, and there are other details in the third and fourth sections that still escape us.
His authority could only be threatened if he were robbed of the tablets which symbolize absolute control over the course of affairs.
Not only do both symbolize the same natural phenomenon, but in both, Bel of Nippur was originally the central figure of the pantheon, and in both Marduk replaces Bel.
Anu, Bel, and Ea symbolize the eternal laws of the universe.
It has been thought, therefore, that this height was intended to symbolize the sun's distance.
A parable is a way of teaching in which natural objects are used to represent or symbolize spiritual realities.
Nicodemus could not understand how earthly things could symbolize or represent spiritual things.
All these relationships symbolize evil affections and thoughts which are to be no longer loved.
They speak on this wise: "If the different kinds of ground symbolize or represent the different natures and dispositions of men with respect to believing and obeying the Word, then all have not an equal chance for salvation.
To my mind these bitter waters of Jericho symbolize the truths of God's Word, as these truths appear to the mind and affect the taste of the unconverted man.
It was to be almost completely hidden by vines, after the manner of Shasta Falls, and to symbolize the mysterious appearance and disappearance of water that came from - one didn't know where.
There was cleverness in making the salamander, with his fiery breath and his sting, ready to attack a Greek warrior, symbolize fire.
As if to symbolize the common rights and interests of all, he spent his leisure hours in writing the history of the city, which was preserved, bound in a purple cover, as a sacred relic in the town hall.
The guild of merchants now built ten chariots, to which others were afterwards to be added, not so much to carry as to symbolize the tribute, and Andrea del Sarto, who painted some of them, no doubt did his work to perfection.
In her temple at Thebes, she is represented holding the infant Plutus in her arms, to symbolize her power over riches and prosperity.
Living thus in the very heart of foes, Judah was the better fitted to symbolize the Church of Christ, as she is usually found when faithful to her high calling.
The following is a list of composite names which may be found to symbolizethe four elements.
The whistles made from the leg and wing bones of eagles, and used among the Plains tribes, are generally employed by the Dakota to symbolize the cry of the eagle as a representative of the thunder-bird.
With calm and beauty symbolize The peace which follows long annoy, And lend our earth-bent, mourning eyes, Some hint of his diviner joy.
The pond behind it, where bloom the lilies whose spotless purity may well symbolize her gentle spirit, is a sacred pool to her townsfolk.
He found great difficulty in getting a flowing stream of consciousness to imitate or even symbolize an eternally fixed and completed reality.
The idea is left either with two independent purposes--one to reconstruct finite experience, the other to represent and symbolize the absolute system--or one of these purposes is merged in the other.
The alcoves, which symbolize the Four Seasons, are admirably conceived in their relation to the entire composition.
The altar-tower and fountain symbolize the human and animal passions of the theme.
The chanticleers on the finials surrounding the courtsymbolize the dawn of Christianity.
The three judges waited, and he continued: "Having formed these abstract ideas, it becomes necessary to symbolize them, in order to deal with them apart from the actual object.
I'd say: a level of mentation qualitatively different from nonsapience in that it includes ability to symbolize ideas and store and transmit them, ability to generalize and ability to form abstract ideas.
These nine Heavens, as we said before, are only myths to which from the Empyrean come forth the Elect in condescension to Dante's sense-bound faculties, in order to symbolize certain truths.
