EXPOSITION OF THE IMAGES.

The root is fixed in the minds of all, and they eagerly see to it that they receive an increase in their own time, which they now bring forth with smiling mouths and small words, and later execute with hardness and power. For from an evil tree, good fruit can never be born.

SECOND IMAGE.

The Pope thrusts the staff of the Cross, the lower point of which ends in a lily, into the beak of an eagle.

A square, symmetrical floral ornament features stylized vines, leaves, and four-petaled blossoms.

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