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XXIII. THE MARRIAGE IN CANA 87
This unregarding forgetfulness of present spiritual power is similarly marked by Veronese, by placing the figure of a fool with his bauble immediately underneath that of Christ, and by making a cat play with her shadow in one of the wine-vases.1
It is to be remembered, however, in examining all pictures of this subject, that the miracle was not made manifest to all the guests;-to none indeed, seemingly, except Christ’s own disciples: the ruler of the feast, and probably most of those present (except the servants who drew the water), knew or observed nothing of what was passing, and merely thought the good wine had been “kept until now.”2
1 [See Ruskin’s “Notes on the Louvre”: Vol. XII. p. 473 (No. 1192).]
2 [John ii. 9, 10.]
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