Luke 9:46-48 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.… Greek art gives us no children. Nay, it is equally true, though perhaps not so surprising, that up to the thirteenth century there were no Gothic children either. It was only when art was touched by Christianity, and when the Madonna and Child became the light of every honest heart and the joy of every pure soul, that pictures of children were possible. The tradition of the Beautiful Child lasted long. Then came a dark period in which children were ground to death by our millwheels, and the wealthy patrons of art could not conceive of the children of the poor except in vice and misery; and it is only now that you are beginning to restore the quiet earth to the steps of children. (Ruskin.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.WEB: There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest. |
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