disappeared, and because also Christ is a real man, Pope Adrian
commands us to paint him under the form of a man. The lamb of God must
not any longer be painted on a cross, but after a human form has been
placed on the cross, there is no objection to have a lamb also
represented with it, either at the foot of the cross or on the
opposite side." [Footnote: Translated from the French of Didron.
Quoted by Malvert.] We leave it to our readers to draw the necessary
conclusions from the above letter. How did a lamb hold its place on
the cross for eight hundred years? If Jesus was really crucified, and
that fact was a matter of history, why did it take eight hundred years
for a Christian bishop to write, "now that Christ is a real man,"
etc.? Today, it would be considered a blasphemy to place a lamb on a
cross.

On the tombstones of Christians of the fourth century are pictures
representing, not Jesus, but a lamb, working the miracles mentioned in
the gospels, such as multiplying the loaves and fishes, and raising
Lazarus from the dead.

[Illustration: Mosaic of St. Praxedes, V Century, Showing the Lamb
Christ.]

[Illustration: The Lamb Slowly Becoming Human.]

[Illustration: The Lamb Multiplying the Loaves and Fishes, IV Century
Sarcophagus.]

The first representations of a human form on the cross differ
considerably from those which prevail at the present time.