The same, from his Poem, on the ‘Revelation of Christ being signified through all the Teaching of Moses. On Abraham and Melchisedech.’—Chap. vi.
Images should be made after their originals.
St Gregory of Nazianzen, from His Sermon on the ‘Son,’ ii.
An image is essentially a representation of its original.
St Chrysostom, from his Third ‘Commentary on the Colossians.’
The image of what is invisible, were it also invisible, would cease to be an image. An image, as far as it is an image, should be kept inviolably by us, owing to the likeness it represents.
The same, from his ‘Commentary on the Hebrews.’—Chap. xvii.
As in images the image presents the form of a man, though not his strength, so the original and the likeness have much in common, for the likeness is the man.
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