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This painting presents an event mentioned in the book of Genesis (18, 1. 19). When Abraham was 99 years old God appeared to him in the form of Three Angels. Abraham welcomed them, and they prophesied that even in her old age, his wife Sarah would bear a son by the name of Isaac.
Christian commentators understood the story of Abraham's encounter with the three angels as an Old Testament prefiguration of the Christian Trinity.
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