Rembrandt, from Wikimedia Commons, The Beheading of John the Baptist, provides for us the light and dark, the human faces, the passion, the arc of history, the hatred.
Augustine of Hippo characterized it this way in a homily: "...a cruel dispatch, like that of a beast, through hatred of the truth..." (from Monastic Breviary, Matins According to the Rule of Saint Benedict, Society of the Sacred Cross).
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