{"id":5397,"date":"2013-05-10T01:31:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2015-03-13T22:59:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:59:33","slug":"the-edinburgh-adventure-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2013\/05\/10\/the-edinburgh-adventure-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edinburgh Adventure&#8211; Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>When one thinks of Scotland, one quite readily may think of this\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/edin11.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/edin11-e1367584480205-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5398\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or perhaps this\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/edin12.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/edin12-e1367584574878-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5399\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But perhaps you would not associate Edinburgh with fine art\u2026 though it has one of the best small museum collections of religious paintings in Europe.   For example,  did you know you could find a famous el Greco here\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/edin13.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/edin13-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or a very colorful painting of the stoning of Stephen?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/2013-08-24-21.28.34.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/2013-08-24-21.28.34-e1367584846587-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5402\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This painter must have thought Stephen was stoned by the fashion police for wearing flash clothes!   But seriously, here is the description\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/edin141.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/edin141-e1367584947481-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5403\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upstairs there is a remarkable bronze statue of John the Baptizer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/2013-08-24-21.57.21.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/2013-08-24-21.57.21-e1367585206643-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5404\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I doubt John used seashells of that size for baptism, but here is the description\u2026.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/2013-08-24-21.57.33.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2013\/05\/2013-08-24-21.57.33-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5405\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one thinks of Scotland, one quite readily may think of this\u2026. or perhaps this\u2026 But perhaps you would not associate Edinburgh with fine art\u2026 though it has one of the best small museum collections of religious paintings in Europe. 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