Fra Angelico, The Crucifixion: Detail, Zacharias

1441-43
Fresco
Convent of San Marco, Florence

This detail is one of the insets in the border around the main image of the Crucifixion, all of which have banderoles with phrases relating to the Crucifixion. Zacharias's banderole reads His plagatus sum, from Zacharias 13:6, Et dicetur ei: Quid sunt plagae istae in medio manuum tuarum? Et dicet: His plagatus sum in domo eorum qui diligebant me, "And it shall be said to him: What are these wounds in the midst of thy hands? And he shall say: With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved me." The Glossa Ordinaria (editio princeps, 1489) glosses "what are these wounds" as "who fastened your hands with nails" and identifies the wounded one as "the only-begotten Son who in accord with the will of God the Father, though innocent of all wrong, was given over to death for the sins of men."

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