Notice that in order to prevent idolatry, He prohibits the creation of images, as it is impossible to depict the immeasurable, indescribable, and invisible God. For it is affirmed that His image has not been seen; as Paul declares while addressing the Areopagus, “Therefore we, being the offspring of God, ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold, or silver, or stone, which has been formed by the art and imagination of men” (Acts 17:29). This command was especially relevant to the Jews, given their tendency toward idolatry. However, we, to speak as the Theologian, having been granted the wisdom to escape superstitious distractions and having embraced the truth, strive to maintain a pure and sacred relationship with God, serving Him alone, excelling in the knowledge of the divine, and, having matured past spiritual infancy, attaining the stature of “a perfect man... no longer children” (Eph. 4:13-14). We have been endowed by God with the capacity to discern what can be accurately represented and what transcends portrayal through images. For “the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith... and we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world” (Galatians 3:24; Galatians 4:3).
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