...manner 'of similitude [of God] in the day that the Lord spake unto you, lest ye corrupt yourselves, arid make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female," &c. Isaiah xl. 18, 25. " To whom then will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto him....

...plainer instruction than these ? Take therefore good heed to yourselves, (for ye saw no image in tJte day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,) that ye corrupt not yourselves, and make you a. graven image, or representation of any figure, whether...

...is this of their having seen no similitude thus singled out ? The next paragraph explains : " Take therefore good heed unto yourselves, for ye saw no manner of "similitude on the day when the Lord spake unto you in Horeb "out of the midst of the fire; lest ye corrupt yourselves, and...

...book of Deuteronomy. ' Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves,' saith Moses to the Israelites, ' for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that...corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the likeness of male or female.' Other images or pictures, as of the Virgin, of our Saviour, of the Apostles,...

...place in Deuteronomy, where Moses reports the ground of this prohibition ; Take ye therefore, saith he, good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of...unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire ; lest you corrupt, and make you a graven image : no shape representing God did appear at his utterance of...

...admitted of representation. Hear the language of Moses : ' Take good heed lest ye make you a graven image, for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that...spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.' * If, since that * Dcut. iv. 15, 1C. — The arrangement of the text is a little changed, to pnt the...

...admitted of representation. Hear the language of Moses, " Take good heed, lest ye make you a graven image, for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that...unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire."* If, since that period, God has taken a body, then the reason of the prohibition has ceased ; and if...

...admitted of representation. Hear the language of Moses : ' Take good heed lest ye make you a graven image, for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that...spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.' * If, since that • Dent. ir. 15, 16. — The arrangement of the text if a little changed, to pot...

...sculptured or painted representative. Wherefore the Israelites were forbidden to have any image : " Take ye, therefore, good heed unto yourselves, for...you a graven image, the similitude of any figure." Dent. iv. 15, 16. The Prophet Isaiah asks, " To whom will ye liken God ? — or what likeness will...

...Deut. iv. 15— 19,23. "Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves,(forye saw NO MANNER ofsimilitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb,...similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female," &c. Q. 8. How is it abominable? A. As it is a debasing the Creator of heaven and earth to the rank...