Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 104. (Budapest, 2006)

ANNA EÖRSI: "...there is One Among You Whom You Do Not Recognise": Some Golden Threads to Miklós Boskovits with Reference to Duccio's Saint John the Baptist

On a bas de page of a Southern German antiphonary from the end of the fifteenth century originating from a Poor Clare cloister, the Baptist preaches to elegant ladies settled on the edge of a forest, who are unaware that Christ is also present in their company (fig. S)}

6 In Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Christ stands at the edge of the crowd, behind Saint John; the gesture of the Forerunner's outstretched left arm is understood only by him and the viewer, and not by the audience (fig. 6)?[II. "WHOM YOU DO NOT RECOGNISE" The cited passage

—"but there is one among you whom you do not recognise"

—refers to the fact that the Messiah has already arrived; presently it is only the Forerunner who can see him, but he will soon reveal Himself to everyone. It is understandable that with reference to the passage, the commentaries usually discuss the double nature. Origen: "Christ is so superior that although He is invisible due to His divinity, He is present for everyone and He is part of the whole world, which He discloses with the following words: 'but there is one among you whom you do not recognise.'"

38 Saint Gregory the Great: "With this and other mysteries our Saviour lets out His secret, declaring that He stood among the people who were unaware of it. The Lord appeared in human form: He came as God in body, in His invisible majesty."

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'' Paschasius Radbertus: "And John relates: but there is one among you whom you do not recognise. And if He is always present for everyone, how can parables say that He leaves or wanders? Unless for the reason that [...] He is not encircled by a body, but He is complete everywhere and He is omnipresent."

40 Rupert von Deutz: '"there stands One among you who, coming after me, is preferred before me for He was before me' [...] that in body the Lord came to this world after John, is doubtless to everyone. Since his [...] birth [...] preceded that of the Lord with SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST BEARING WITNESS FROM A LATE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY SOUTH GERMAN MANUSCRIPT. MUNICH. BAYERISCHE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK