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> > As for the Rose windows evoking the Garden of Eden,
Not only is the 'Paradise of Pleasure' not referred to as a garden, but
it is remarkable, not for its plants, but for its precious stones:
Gold (Genesis 2:11), bdellium and onyx (Genesis 2:12). Likewise the
New Jerusalem is described in the Apocalypse as full of precious
stones, pearls and gold and jasper and sapphire and agate and emerald
and onyx and chrysolite and beryl and topaz and chrysoprase, jacinth
and amethyst (Rev 21:18-21). The coloured glass may well have evoked
this kind of aesthetic; but I don't know if folk had such positive
notions of gardens as some people (I exclude myself) now do.
Oriens.
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