The two ways or two roads icon

[Angela V.]

I am searching for an icon that has two roads, one narrow the other wide were I can download from the internet.

Does anyone know this particular icon?'

Thanks
Angela

[Father David Moser]

I don't think that an icon like this exists. Icons are images of saints or of events that occurred but you are speaking of a metaphor - kind of an icon of an icon. There are iconographic renderings of the two prelenten parables, but I haven't really seen any other renderings of parables or whatever. There might be one painted on the wall of a chapel somewhere, but I seriously doubt that such a thing might be found on the internet as a downloadable image.

[Olga]

It sounds like this image is not an icon as such (i.e. not an image which can be prayed before or venerated as an icon), but a didactic illustration painted in a stylised, "iconographic" manner. I have not come across this particular imagery of wide and narrow roads in my "travels".

[Angela V.]

Thankyou both Father David Moser and Olga. Sorry, I meant it is a picture of the two roads.

[Michael Stickles]

The only image like that I found is over on the blog Απόψεις για τη Μονή Βατοπαιδίου (και όχι μόνο).


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In Christ,
Michael

[Peter]

I notice the 'eye in the pyramid' at the top part of the above image.
Does anyone else here feel uncomfortable with such a representation of God?

[Mr Niko T.]

The following is a variation on the subject: http://www.eikonografos.com/album/di...754&fullsize=1

The title reads: "The Two Gates", and contrasts the fall through Eve and exit from Paradise, and the redemption through the Theotokos and entrance to Paradise.

[Angela V.]

Thanks Michael and everyone,

The one I have seen has demons encouraging the people to go to the wide gate, while the narrow gate has a man holding his cross and Jesus on the top waiting for him.

It is such a great picture to show when explaining the two roads.

[Dova Nisavic]

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

Robert Frost