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| The Shoemaker Window - sums it all up. It combines the Good Samaritan and Adam & Eve stories I'm fairly certain you all know the Adam & Eve story. The apple, leaving the Garden of Eden, trouble and woes, loss of immortality. The Good Samaritan story - a man leaves Jerusalem and is attacked by thieves and left for dead. A priest and Levite pass him by - crossing the road to go around him. A Samaritan sees the man and helps him to an inn where he tells the innkeeper to look after him and says that he will return. The popular belief in the Middle Ages was that the man leaving Jerusalem symbolizes fallen mankind (man leaving Jerusalem, Adam & Eve leaving the Garden of Eden). The thieves attacking the man represents the temptations that man faced that led to his loss of immortality. "The priest and Levite represent the Old Testament - unable to heal humanity's spiritual wounds. The Samaritan is Christ himself, the inn symbolizes his church and the promise to return represents the second coming of Christ." (Malcolm Miller, Chartres Cathedral, 1996) |
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