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… tism. In the orthodox baptistery [handwritten: in] at Ravenna, there is preserved a piece of relief in which Christ is shown standing on two monsters, one, a dragon and the other, a lion. [handwritten: 153] This is in part the form of the struggle described in the Manichean psalm, [handwritten: written sometime before or during the fifth century 154] [handwritten: he took her]
[handwritten: The lion (roared) his lair with his dragon also.] The lion (took) my fair daughter, he seized her [handwritten: the lion roared] [handwritten: within in this lair, in this lair, his companions also gathered] -66- [handwritten: (within) his lair with his dragon also.]
Handwritten: the dragon whistled and hissed (6 Gupi 3 eiv )
Lo, they with all -- ----- their powers also roar out in every place, not appearing [handwritten: unto] unto my daughter [handwritten: ] lest their power should be lessened.
[handwritten: my Father,] --- the great dragon; the serpent, his consort also, I emmeshed; I took my daughter from them and set her high above them all; -- the great lion and the dragon out of the [handwritten: ~~] universe.
the [handwritten: bride] bride shall go to her bride-chamber. [handwritten: 155] This rescue of the daughter who goes to her bridechamber is a reference to Christ's protecting the church and marrying her, see below pp.38-41, but his conquest of these monsters, i.e. the devil, was considered to be related, also, … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain