Phillip Medhurst

Wisdom from a Gnostic Sage

Tag: scapegoat

Phillip Medhurst presents 298/392 the James Tissot Jesus c 1896 The Scapegoat. By (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Opaque watercolour over graphite on paper. 25.6 x 17.1 cms. Brooklyn Museum New York.

Phillip Medhurst presents 298/392 the James Tissot Jesus c 1896 The Scapegoat. By (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. After a painting now in the Brooklyn Museum, New York; photogravure from “La Vie de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ … . avec des notes et des dessins explicatifs par J. James Tissot” 1896-97.

The Scapegoat

 

Each head, bowed down with several cares

Is raised to watch the sacrifice

Proceed to where Jehovah waits

To host a feast that famishes.

This flock anticipates a goat

That stumbles on the precipice.

We cannot spare our sympathy.

With it bad karma vanishes.