... AND WHO WANTS TO DETERMINE THE WORD

The name of the painting depicting the Garden of Gethsemane: "... AND WHO WANTS TO DETERMINE WHAT GOD IS WITH A WORD, THAT IS BLIND IN THE MIND..." (John of the Ladder) Description of the author: Three Shrovetide trees symbolize the Holy Trinity. Olives also personify the highest (absolute) Love of God for man (forgiving the sins of the world of people even by the sacrifice of his own Son, redeeming them with His torment and death) and the gift of hope to others for the acquisition of Eternal Life in the heavenly chamber. The arrangement of the hands of the Messiah, reflecting His two hypostases, is symbolic . The left hand is identified with the human nature of Jesus Christ - with it He holds on to the earth (for a stone) as a symbol of the fear of death inherent in man and the spontaneous desire to avert fanaticism and bodily torment. The right hand ascends to heaven - to the Father, personifying the acceptance of the essence of the will of the Holy Spirit - the Divine nature of the Savior. The willow symbolizes the grief and sorrow of the true servants of God for the predestined torment of Christ and for human sins. But the palm tree, over which the dawn is born (located far away, since there is still much to come), marks the victory of the ever-memorable Savior “who trampled death by death”, rebirth and life at His right hand with the Father in the Kingdom of Heaven, and the salvation of mankind!