HISTORY 7A Lecture Notes - Adiaphora, Speech Balloon, Puritans
10 Oct 2013
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History lecture #7: the english puritan movement and the origins of. Indian on seal is not depicted as real life, but rather in a stylized way to suggest that he is a natural man. It is not meant to depict an indian, but rather a natural man". The latin motto around the seal, and english speech bubble come over and help us". Come over and help us" has biblical origins: st. paul, an evangelist, dreamt that a. Macedonian man told him come over and help us". Philippi was first a greek colony and then a roman colony, and was the first place in europe that st. paul brought. This was the beginning of the christian colonization of europe. Therefore, when they put this on the seal, they aren"t depicting an indian; rather, they are trying to do the same thing that paul had done when he brought. Christianity from asia to europe: reformers and the bible, protestant reformation.
