Jewelry Designers create pieces with
symbolical meaning using various materials like gold, silver, platinum, precious stones, etc..
Every movement and even their clothes carry
symbolical meaning.
On the other hand,
the symbolical meaning which E. Käsemann finds in the word is certainly appropriate to the author's message.
Speaking of historical references, still life genre has always been in a connection to various metaphysical concerns and
symbolical meanings, but in the case of this artist maybe there's no need to search for hidden stories behind, but indulge to pure visual satisfaction and feast for the eyes.
Not exact matches
But the baptism is no magical performance, for it promises escape only to the seriously repentant; at the same time it is no merely
symbolical act in the modern sense; it is rather a «sign» in the antique
meaning of the word, which guarantees the mysterious union of the
symbolical act, now occurring, with the future event which the
symbolical act prophesies.
But despite the assertions of certain biblical scholars, this does not
mean that no metaphysic is implicit in Hebrew thinking; it
means only that the language in which the implicit metaphysic was stated was for the Hebrew highly imaginistic, pictorial,
symbolical.
In the first place, we must reply that if such language is - to have any
meaning at all it must denote an act in a real, objective sense, and not just a
symbolical or pictorial expression.