Belief in a Trinity of...
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Belief in a Trinity of persons in the Godhead runs through and through the New Testament and especially in this Romans 5:1-5 passage.
The orthodox see the Trinity in the Old Testament as well, as is shown in the famous icon of Abraham, "the friend of God" entertaining angels, from Genesis 18. The icon pictures three figures behind a table, sitting to the left, right, and center rear. (The drape of the left and right figures' cloaks make the table appear as if a chalice cup without the stem, thus representing a pre-figurement of the Eucharist.) In Eastern iconography, the three angels were the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, whom Abraham and Sarah entertained. To the Orthodox, the Genesis 18 meal, as is so often true, was an important meeting between God and man, an "annunciation," where the Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre. The three heavenly strangers are pointing to the Trinity in this encounter.
The orthodox see the Trinity in the Old Testament as well, as is shown in the famous icon of Abraham, "the friend of God" entertaining angels, from Genesis 18. The icon pictures three figures behind a table, sitting to the left, right, and center rear. (The drape of the left and right figures' cloaks make the table appear as if a chalice cup without the stem, thus representing a pre-figurement of the Eucharist.) In Eastern iconography, the three angels were the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, whom Abraham and Sarah entertained. To the Orthodox, the Genesis 18 meal, as is so often true, was an important meeting between God and man, an "annunciation," where the Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre. The three heavenly strangers are pointing to the Trinity in this encounter.
