PSALM LXXXI (82), f. 48v, the upper picture.
The beardless, cross-nimbed Christ-Logos bearing a cross-staff is standing within a mandorla between two groups of men on whom He is passing judgment (verses 1-2), and six angels. To the left below are groups of the poor, fatherless, afflicted and needy looking up at a figure with sword who has his foot upon the neck of a prostrate victim (verses 3-4). One of the groups at the left is bearing crosses and walking in a cave. These must be the martyrs suggested by verses 6 and 7 '... all of you are children of the Most High but you shall die ...' In the right half of the picture stands a group of kings, the 'princes' of verse 7. To right and left of them angels of the Lord are hurling down idols from their pedestals. One of these idols is completely shattered. At the base of the pedestal to the right are fallen princes; ('... and fall like one of the princes,' verse 7). The reason for the representation of the idols, it seems, would be the passage in verse 1 (Latin version) which speaks of God standing in the congregation of the gods and judging the gods. At the bottom of the picture, an Atlas in a cave is shaking 'the foundations of the earth' (verse 5). The five naked figures in the cave are they that 'walk on in darkness' (verse 5). A lone wondering figure which may be the psalmist is standing in the upper right of the picture.
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