IMAGE.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.—Genesis, i. 27.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.—Exodus, xx. 4, 5.
As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.—I. Corinthians, xv. 49.
For what had all this all, which man in one,
Did not unite; the earth, air, water, fire,
Life, sense, and spirit; nay, the pow’rful throne
Of the Divinest Essence did retire;
And his own Image into clay inspire;
So that this creature well might called be,
Of the great world the small epitome;
Of the dead world, the life, and small anatome.
Giles Fletcher.
Thou man Thy image mad’st, in dignity,
In knowledge and in beauty like to Thee;
Placed in a heaven on earth; without his toil,
The ever flourishing and fruitful soil
Unpurchased food produced; all creatures were
His subjects, serving more for love than fear.
Sandys.
He made us to His image all agree;
That image is the soul, and that must be,
Or not the Maker’s image, or be free.
Dryden.
Outcasts of mortal race! can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft, or great.
Prior.
Poor man! How happy once in thy first state!
When yet but warm from thy great Maker’s hand,
He stamped thee with His image, and well pleased,
Smiled on his last fair work!
Blair.
God spake: He look’d on earth and heaven
With mild and generous eye;
In his own image man he made,
And gave him dignity.
Krummacher.