‘stress’ of the latter in itself: sacramenta continent quae significant. But the mystery incorporated in the inscapes is not to be grasped as a straightforward picture, as, it might be, a simple allegory. The mystery of Christ is, on the one hand, of infinite depth, penetrating all the levels of being from flesh to spirit and beyond into the abyss of the Trinity; on the other, it is an infinitely dramatic event that in the kenotic descent into man and matter exalts and changes them, redeems and deifies