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Rising like the bust of a Roman emperor out of his tomb, and as Durling (Durl.1981.2, pp. 11-14) and Cassell (Cass.1984.1, pp. 24-26) have independently discovered, still more importantly, in imitation of the 'Man of Sorrows' (see Isaiah 53:3: 'virum dolorum et scientem infirmitatem') (a man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmity), that image (the so-called imago pietatis) of Christ rising from the tomb, naked, showing the signs of his torture, not yet having taken on majesty. With this image in our minds, Farinata's heresy seems all the less pardonable, since Christ had come and suffered for him, too.