| Thomas Watson - 1838 - 812 pages
...essence, John iv. 24. ; and, being a spirit, he is invisible, Deut. iv. 1¿., " Ye saw no similitude in the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire." How can any paint the Deity ? Can they make an image of that which they never saw ? Quod invisible... | |
| Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - Catechetical sermons - 1838 - 370 pages
...time, nor seen His shape, says holy Scripture ; Deut. 4, and therefore Moses says to the Israelites, Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude : for if His outward appearance is utterly incapable of unrra.- delineation, much less is His substance... | |
| Sermons, English - 1839 - 442 pages
...against any forms of image worship. You remember that warning, for instance, in the book of Deuteronomy: "Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for...that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb, out of the mklat of the fire." Hence the injunction of the second commandment, which was not only directed to... | |
| Saint Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem) - Catechetical sermons - 1839 - 410 pages
...time, nor seen His shape, says holy Scripture ; and therefore Moses Deut. 4, says to the Israelites, Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude : for if His outward appearance is utterly incapable of delineation, much less ir•zri- is His substance... | |
| James Fisher - 1840 - 496 pages
...many other scriptures, such as, Jer. x. 14, 15; Hos. xiii. 2, and particularly Deut. iv. 15—19, 23: "Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, (for...the fire,) lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you i graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female," &c. Q. 8. How is it... | |
| Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 15 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness... | |
| Cyril A. Mango, Medieval Academy of America - Art - 1986 - 292 pages
...heed of your souls, for ye saw no similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you on the mount of Horeb out of the midst of the fire, lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven similitude." 305 For no existing thing is similar or equal or identical to the Trinity that is good... | |
| John Drury - Fiction - 1989 - 220 pages
...unwarranted, and therefore necessarily unworthy, notions of God. (Compare Deuteronomy 4. 15-19.) 'Ye saw no similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:' no similitude therefore was warranted to them by God, and none might be lawfully imagined by them for... | |
| Gabriel Josipovici - Religion - 1990 - 376 pages
...the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice' (4 : 12). The commandment follows at once: Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye...you a graven image, the similitude of any figure. (Deut. 4:15-16) The fear of idols is not simply the fear of the gods of the nations in the midst of... | |
| Raphael Patai - Civilization - 1996 - 660 pages
...enumeration of the things whose representation is forbidden is contained in a passage in Deuteronomy: Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves — for ye saw no manner of form on the day that the Lord spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of fire — lest ye deal corruptly,... | |
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