APOC. 3.7-13A t nd to the angel <strong>of</strong> the church<strong>of</strong> Philadelphia, write: <strong>The</strong>sethings saith the Holy One andthe true one, he that hath thekey <strong>of</strong> David; he that openeth, and no manshutteth; shutteth, and no man openeth:8 I know thy works. Behold, I have given beforethee a door opened, which no man can shut:because thou hast a little strength, and hastkept my word, and hast not denied my name.9 Behold, I will bring <strong>of</strong> the synagogue <strong>of</strong>Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, butdo lie. Behold, I will make them to come andadore before thy feet. And they shall knowthat I have loved thee.o10 Because thou hast kept the word <strong>of</strong> mypatience, I will also keep thee from thehour <strong>of</strong> temptation, which shall come uponthe whole world to try them that dwell uponthe earth.1 Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that whichthou hast, that no man take thy crown.12 He that shall overcome, I will make him apillar in the temple <strong>of</strong> my God; and he shallgo out no more; and I will write upon himthe name <strong>of</strong> my God, and the name <strong>of</strong> thecity <strong>of</strong> my God, the new Jerusalem, whichcometh down out <strong>of</strong> heaven from my God,and my new name.13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what theSpirit saith to the churches.Here, John <strong>of</strong>fers his visionarytext, in the form <strong>of</strong> aclosed book, to anotherllimiii 11111111111 - - I --angel (this one representingPhiladelphia, the sixth <strong>of</strong> thechurches <strong>of</strong> Asia Minor),whose gestures suggest bothinstruction and wonder.Except for the details <strong>of</strong> thisaction and the presence <strong>of</strong>an altar and eucharisti chalice-which,as on the previ-ous Cardefna leaf, hint at theinterior architectural space<strong>of</strong> an apse-the iconographyremains unchanged fromthat <strong>of</strong> the correspondingillustration in the MorganFIGURE 27Miniature from the Morgan Beatus.<strong>The</strong> Pierpont Morgan Library, NewYork (MS M. 644, fol. 70ov, detail)FIGURE 28Apostle Figure, West Facade, Church<strong>of</strong> Santiago. Spanish (Le6n-Castile,Palencia, Carri6n de los Condes),1170-80Beatus (fig. 27). Yet the hotcolors, including an intenseyellow, <strong>of</strong> the earlier manuscripthave again given wayto a less strident and simplercolor scheme, notwithstandingthe addition <strong>of</strong> gold. <strong>The</strong>two figures now suggest lowrelief. <strong>The</strong> damp-fold style<strong>of</strong> drapery in the figure <strong>of</strong>John, which is especiallyclose to that <strong>of</strong> the largerangels on the Majesty page(see p. 22), may be comparedto an analogous apostlefigure in Carri6n de losCondes (see fig. 28).-27-
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