(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Life of Christ
	→ Passion → Betrayal and arrest of Christ → The soldiers fall back
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 9586 (French or German, second quarter 15th century)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground → 17a: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground → 17a: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground → Variant: Christ and one or more apostles facing a group of collapsing or collapsed soldiers
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Judges → Jud. 3:31: Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare → Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Judges → Jud. 15:15: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass → Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → 2 Kings → 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies → Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → The soldiers fall back → with 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → The soldiers fall back → with Jud. 3:31: Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → The soldiers fall back → with Jud. 15:15: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	French or German
	DATE
	2nd quarter 15th century
	LOCATION
	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France → lat. 9586, fol. 18v
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Acknowledgements
	Images on external web-page, kindly provided by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF (public domain)

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