Christus raakt zijn bruid aan

Christ stands at the right margin holding a large wooden cross, looking toward a regal woman seated on a throne flanked by lions. In the background, a high priest addresses a gathered crowd from a pulpit while smoke billows from a distant altar. The scene illustrates the spiritual union between the divine and the institutional church through prayer and the sacred word.

The image utilizes the 'Sponsa Christi' (Bride of Christ) allegory, a central theme in Christian Neoplatonism and mysticism where the soul or the Church seeks union with the Word. The Solomonic lions on the throne link the Church to the tradition of Divine Wisdom (Sophia), a concept frequently explored by Renaissance syncretists.