Image

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Image

An exact and complete copy or counterpart of any thing. Christ is called "the image of God," 2 1 Corinthians 4:4 Colossians 1:15 Hebrews 1:3, as being the same in nature and attributes. The image of God in which man was created, Genesis 1:27 was in his spiritual, intellectual, and moral nature, in righteousness and true holiness. The posterity of Adam were born in his fallen, sinful likeness, Genesis 5:3; and as we have borne the image of sinful Adam, so we should be molded into the moral image of the heavenly man Christ, 1 1 Corinthians 15:47-49 2 1 Corinthians 3:18.

"An image," Job 4:16, was that which seemed to the dreamer a reality. The word sometimes appears to include, with the image, the idea of the real object, Psalm 73:20 Hebrews 10:1. It is usually applied in the Bible to representations of false gods, painted, graven, etc., Daniel 3:1-30. All use of images in religious worship was clearly and peremptorily prohibited, Exodus 20:4,5 De 16:22 Acts 17:16 Romans 1:23. Their introduction into Christian churches, near the close of the fourth century, was at first strenuously resisted. Now, however, they are universally used by Papists: by most in a gross breach of the second commandment, and by the best in opposition to both the letter and the spirit of the Bible, Exodus 20:4,5 32:4,5 De 4:15 Isaiah 40:18-31 John 4:23,24 Revelation 22:8,9.

The "chambers of imagery," in Ezekiel 8:7-12, had their walls covered with idolatrous paintings, such as are found on the still more ancient stone walls of Egyptian temples, and such as modern researches have disclosed in Assyrian ruins. See NINEVEH.

1. (n.) An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.

2. (n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.

3. (n.) Show; appearance; cast.

4. (n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.

5. (n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.

6. (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.

7. (v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.

8. (v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

GOD, IMAGE OF

In Genesis 1:26, 27, the truth is declared that God created man in His own "image" (tselem), after His "likeness" (demuth). The two ideas denote the same thing-resemblance to God. The like conception of man, tacit or avowed, underlies all revelation. It is given in Genesis 9:6 as the ground of the prohibition of the shedding of man's blood; is echoed in Psalm 8; is reiterated frequently in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 11:7 Ephesians 4:24 Colossians 3:10 Isaiah 3:9). The nature of this image of God in man is discussed in other articles-see especially ANTHROPOLOGY. It lies in the nature of the case that the "image" does not consist in bodily form; it can only reside in spiritual qualities, in man's mental and moral attributes as a self-conscious, rational, personal agent, capable of self-determination and obedience to moral law. This gives man his position of lordship in creation, and invests his being with the sanctity of personality. The image of God, defaced, but not entirely lost through sin, is restored in yet more perfect form in the redemption of Christ. See the full discussion in the writer's work, God's Image in Man and Its Defacement; see also Dr. J. Laidlaw, The Bible Doctrine of Man.

James Orr

IMAGE

im'-aj (tselem; eikon): Its usage falls under 3 main heads.

(1) "Image" as object of idolatrous worship (translations about a dozen words, including maccekhah, "molten image" (Deuteronomy 9:12, etc.); matstsebhah, in the King James Version translated "image" or "pillar," in the Revised Version (British and American) always "pillar" (Exodus 23:24, etc.); pecel, "graven image" (Exodus 20:4, etc.); tselem, "image" (2 Kings 11:18, etc.); eikon, "image" (e.g. Revelation 14:9));

(2) of man as made in the image of God; (3) of Christ as the image of God. Here we are concerned with the last two usages. For "image" in connection with idolatrous practices, see IDOLATRY; IMAGES; PILLAR; TERAPHIM, etc.

I. Man as Made in the Divine Image.

1. In the Old Testament:

To define man's fundamental relation to God, the priestly writer in Genesis uses two words: "image" (tselem) and "likeness" (demuth); once employing both together (Genesis 1:26; compare Genesis 5:3), but elsewhere one without the other, "image" only in Genesis 1:27; Genesis 9:6, and "likeness" only in 5:1. The priestly writer alone in the Old Testament uses this expression to describe the nature of man, though the general meaning of the passage Genesis 1:26 is echoed in Psalm 8:5-8, and the term itself reappears in Apocrypha (Sirach 17:3; The Wisdom of Solomon 2:23) and in the New Testament (see below).

The idea is important in relation to the Biblical doctrine of man, and has figured prominently in theological discussion. The following are some of the questions that arise:

(1) Is there any distinction to be understood between "image" and "likeness"? Most of the Fathers, and some later theologians, attempt to distinguish between them.

(a) Some have referred "image" to man's bodily form, and "likeness" to his spiritual nature (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus).

(b) Others, especially the Alexandrian Fathers, understood by the "image" the mental and moral endowments native to man, and by the "likeness" the Divine perfections which man can only gradually acquire by free development and moral conflict (Clement of Alexandria and Origen), or which is conferred on man as a gift of grace.

(c) This became the basis of the later Roman Catholic distinction between the natural gifts of rationality and freedom (= the image), and the supernatural endowments of grace which God bestowed on man after He had created him (the likeness = donum superadditum). The former remained after the Fall, though in an enfeebled state; the latter was lost through sin, but restored by Christ. The early Protestants rejected this distinction, maintaining that supernatural righteousness was part of the true nature and idea of man, i.e. was included in the "image," and not merely externally superadded. Whatever truth these distinctions may or may not contain theologically, they cannot be exegetically inferred from Genesis 1:26, where (as is now generally admitted) no real difference is intended.

We have here simply a "duplication of synonyms" (Driver) for the sake of emphasis. The two terms are elsewhere used interchangeably.

(2) What, then, is to be understood by the Divine image? Various answers have been given.

(a) Some of the Fathers (influenced by Philo) supposed that the "image" here = the Logos (called "the image of the invisible God" in Colossians 1:15), on the pattern of whom man was created. But to read the Logos doctrine into the creation narrative is to ignore the historic order of doctrinal development. (b) That it connotes physical resemblance to God (see (1), (a) above; so in the main Skinner, ICC, in the place cited.). It may be admitted that there is a secondary reference to the Divine dignity of the human body; but this does not touch the essence of the matter, inasmuch as God is not represented as having physical form.

(c) That it consists of dominion over the creatures (Socinian view; so also Gregory of Nyssa, Chrysostom, etc.). This would involve an unwarranted narrowing of the idea. It is true that such "dominion" is closely associated with the image in Genesis 1:26 (compare Psalm 8:6-8). But the "image of God" must denote primarily man's relation to his Creator, rather than his relation to the creation. Man's lordship over Nature is not identical with the image, but is an effect of it.

(d) It is best to take the term as referring to the whole dignity of man, in virtue of his fundamental affinity to God. It implies the possession by man of a free, self-conscious, rational and moral personality, like unto that of God-a nature capable of distinguishing right and wrong, of choosing the right and rejecting the wrong, and of ascending to the heights of spiritual attainment and communion with God. This involves a separation of man from the beast, and his supremacy as the culmination of the creative process.

(3) Does the term imply man's original perfection, lost through sin? The old Protestant divines maintained that the first man, before the Fall, possessed original righteousness, not only in germ but in developed form, and that this Divine image was destroyed by the Fall. Exegetically considered, this is certainly not taught by the priestly writer, who makes no mention of the Fall, assumes that the image was transmitted from father to son (compare Genesis 5:1 with 5:3), and naively speaks of post-diluvian men as created in the image of God (Genesis 9:6; compare 1 Corinthians 11:7 James 3:9). Theologically considered, the idea of the perfect holiness of primitive man is based on an abstract conception of God's work in creation, which precludes the idea of development, ignores the progressive method of the Divine government and the essential place of effort and growth in human character. It is more in harmony with modern conceptions

(a) to regard man as originally endowed with the power of right choice, rather than with a complete character given from the first; and

(b) to think of the Divine image (though seriously defaced) as continuing even in the sinful state, as man's inalienable capacity for goodness and his true destination. If the Divine image in man is a self-conscious, rational and ethical personality, it cannot be a merely accidental or transitory attribute, but is an essential constituent of his being.

2. In the New Testament:

Two features may be distinguished in the New Testament doctrine of the Divine image in man:

(1) man's first creation in Adam,

(2) his second or new creation in Christ.

As to (1), the doctrine of the Old Testament is assumed in the New Testament. Paul makes a special application of it to the question of the relation of husband and wife, which is a relation of subordination on the part of the wife, based on the fact that man alone was created immediately after the Divine image (1 Corinthians 11:7). Thus Paul, for the special purpose of his argument, confines the meaning of the image to man's lordly authority, though to infer that he regards this as exhausting its significance would be quite unwarranted. Man's affinity to God is implied, though the term "image" is not used, in Paul's sermon to the Athenians (Acts 17:28, man the "offspring" of God). See also James 3:9 (it is wrong to curse men, for they are "made after the likeness of God").

(2) More characteristic of the New Testament is the doctrine of the new creation.

(a) The redeemed man is said to be in the image of God (the Father). He is "renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him" (Colossians 3:10), i.e. of God the Creator, not here of Christ or the Logos (as some) (compare Ephesians 4:24, "after God"). Though there is here an evident reference to Genesis 1:26, this does not imply that the new creation in Christ is identical with the original creation, but only that the two are analogous. To Paul, the spiritual man in Christ is on a higher level than the natural ("psychical") man as found in Adam (compare especially 1 Corinthians 15:44-49), in whom the Divine image consisted (as we have seen) in potential goodness, rather than in full perfection. Redemption is infinitely more than the restoration of man's primitive state.

(b) The Christian is further said to be gradually transformed into the image of the Son of God. This progressive metamorphosis involves not only moral and spiritual likeness to Christ, but also ultimately the Christian's future glory, including the glorified body, the "passing through a gradual assimilation of mind and character to an ultimate assimilation of His doxa, the absorption of the splendor of His presence" (Sanday and Headlam, Romans, 218; see Romans 8:29 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18; and compare Philippians 3:21 1 John 3:2).

II. Christ the Image of God.

In 3 important passages in English Versions of the Bible, the term "image" defines the relation of Christ to God the Father; twice in Paul: "the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God" (2 Corinthians 4:4); "who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation" (Colossians 1:15); and once in He: "who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance" (Colossians 1:3). These statements, taken in their contexts, register the highest reach of the Christology of the Epistles.

1. The Terms:

In the two Pauline passages, the word used is eikon, which was generally the Septuagint rendering of tselem (Vulgate: imago); it is derived from eiko, eoika, "to be like," "resemble," and means that which resembles an object and represents it, as a copy represents the original. In Hebrews 1:3 the word used is charakter, which is found here only in the New Testament, and is translated in Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) figura, the King James Version "express image," the Revised Version (British and American) "very image," the Revised Version, margin "impress." It is derived from charasso, "to engrave," and has passed through the following meanings:

(1) an engraving instrument (active sense);

(2) the engraved stamp or mark on the instrument (passive sense);

(3) the impress made by the instrument on wax or other object;

(4) hence, generally, the exact image or expression of any person or thing as corresponding to the original, the distinguishing feature, or traits by which a person or thing is known (hence, English words "character," "characteristic"). The word conveys practically the same meaning as eikon; but Westcott distinguishes them by saying that the latter "gives a complete representation, under conditions of earth, of that which it figures," while charakter "conveys representative traits only" (Westcott on Hebrews 1:3).

2. Meaning as Applied to Christ:

The idea here expressed is closely akin to that of the Logos doctrine in John (1:1-18). Like the Logos, the Image in Paul and in He is the Son of God, and is the agent of creation as well as the medium of revelation. "What a word (logos) is to the ear, namely a revelation of what is within, an image is to the eye; and thus in the expression there is only a translation, as it were, of the same fact from one sense to another" (Dorner, System of Ch. D., English translation, III, 178). As Image, Christ is the visible representation and manifestation of the invisible God, the objective expression of the Divine nature, the face of God turned as it were toward the world, the exact likeness of the Father in all things except being the Father. Thus we receive "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6). He is the facsimile of God.

3. To What State Does It Refer?:

Is Christ described as the Image of God in His preincarnate, His incarnate, or else His exalted state? It is best to say that different passages refer to different states, but that if we take the whole trend of New Testament teaching, Christ is seen to be essentially, and in every state, the Image of God.

(a) In Hebrews 1:3 the reference seems to be to the eternal, preincarnate Son, who is inherently and essentially the expression of the Divine substance. So Paul declares that He subsisted originally in the form of God (en morphe theou huparchon, Philippians 2:6).

(b) In John 1:18; John 12:45; John 14:9, though the term image is not used, we have the idea of the historical Jesus as a perfect revelation of the character and glory of God.

(c) In the two Pauline passages (2 Corinthians 4:4 Colossians 1:15), the reference is probably to the glorified, exalted Christ; not to His pre-existent Divine nature, nor to His temporal manifestation, but to His "whole Person, in the divine-human state of His present heavenly existence" (Meyer). These passages in their cumulative impressions convey the idea that the Image is an inalienable property of His personality, not to be limited to any stage of His existence.

4. Theological Implications:

Does this involve identity of essence of Father and Son, as in the Homoousion formula of the Nicene Creed? Not necessarily, for man also bears the image of God, even in his sinful state (see I above), a fact which the Arians sought to turn to their advantage. Yet in the light of the context, we must affirm of Christ an absolutely unique kinship with God. In the Col passage, not only are vast cosmic and redemptive functions assigned to Him, but there is said to dwell in Him "all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (1:19; 2:9). In He not only is the Son the final revelation of God to men, the upholder of the universe, and the very image of the Divine nature, but also the effulgence (apaugasma) of God's glory, and therefore of one nature with Him as the ray is of one essence with the sun (1:1-3). The superiority of the Son is thus not merely one of function but of nature. On the other hand, the figure of the "image" certainly guards against any Sabellian identification of Father and Son, as if they were but modes of the one Person; for we cannot identify the pattern with its copy, nor speak of anyone as an image of himself. And, finally, we must not overlook the affinity of the Logos with man; both are the image of God, though the former in a unique sense. The Logos is at once the prototype of humanity within the Godhead, and the immanent Divine principle within humanity.

5. Relation to Pre-Christian Thought:

Both in Paul and in He we have an echo of the Jewish doctrine of Wisdom, and of Philo's doctrine of the Logos. In the Alexandrine Book of Wisdom, written probably under Stoic influence, Divine Wisdom is pictorially represented as "an effulgence (apaugasma) from everlasting light, and an unspotted mirror of the working of God, and an image (eikon) of His goodness" (7 26). Philo repeatedly calls the Logos or Divine world-principle the image (eikon, charakter) of God, and also describes it as an effulgence of God. But this use of current Alexandrian terminology and the superficial resemblance of ideas are no proof of conscious borrowing on the part of the apostles. There is this fundamental distinction, that Philo's Logos is not a self-conscious personality, still less a historical individual, but an allegorical hypostatizing of an abstract idea; whereas in Paul and He, as in John, the Divine archetype is actually realized in a historical person, Jesus Christ, the Son and Revealer of God.

D. Miall Edwards

CALF IMAGE

See IMAGES.

IMAGE OF GOD

See GOD, IMAGE OF.

JEALOUSY, IMAGE OF

See IMAGES.

MOLTEN, IMAGE

mol'-t'-n.

See IMAGES.

WORSHIP, IMAGE

See IMAGES.

1504. eikon -- an image, ie lit. statue, fig. representation
... 1503, 1504. eikon. 1505 . an image, ie lit. statue, fig. representation. ... 21).
Word Origin from eiko Definition an image, ie lit. statue, fig. ...
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1495. eidololatria -- image worship
... image worship. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: eidololatria Phonetic
Spelling: (i-do-lol-at-ri'-ah) Short Definition: worship or service of an ...
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1496. eidololatres -- an image worshiper
... an image worshiper. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: eidololatres
Phonetic Spelling: (i-do-lol-at'-race) Short Definition: a worshipper of an ...
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3447. moschopoieo -- to make a calf (as an image)
... to make a calf (as an image). Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: moschopoieo
Phonetic Spelling: (mos-khop-oy-eh'-o) Short Definition: I make a model of a ...
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1497. eidolon -- an image (ie for worship), by impl. a false god
... 1496, 1497. eidolon. 1498 . an image (ie for worship), by impl. ... Word Origin
from eidos Definition an image (ie for worship), by impl. ...
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1494. eidolothutos -- sacrificed to idols
... idols. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: eidolothutos Phonetic Spelling:
(i-do-loth'-oo-ton) Short Definition: sacrificed to an image Definition: (of ...
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1493. eidoleion -- an idol's temple
... an idol's temple. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: eidoleion Phonetic
Spelling: (i-do-li'-on) Short Definition: a temple for an image Definition: a ...
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5481. charakter -- a tool for engraving
... Finally it stood for a stamp or impress used on a coin or seal (see , 368). In
each case, the stamp conveyed the reality behind the image.]. ...
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644. aposkiasma -- a shadow
... a shadow. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: aposkiasma Phonetic Spelling:
(ap-os-kee'-as-mah) Short Definition: a shadow, a faint image or copy ...
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5364. philanthropos -- humanely, kindly
... describing the kindness shown by (literally) "a (5384 ) of (444 )." That is, treating
others with courteous respect because each is created in the divine image ...
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6459. pesel -- an idol, image
... 6458, 6459. pesel. 6460 . an idol, image. Transliteration: pesel Phonetic
Spelling: (peh'-sel) Short Definition: image. Word Origin ...
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6755. tselem -- an image
... 6754, 6755. tselem. 6756 . an image. Transliteration: tselem Phonetic
Spelling: (tseh'-lem) Short Definition: image. Word Origin ...
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6754. tselem -- an image
... 6753, 6754. tselem. 6755 . an image. Transliteration: tselem Phonetic Spelling:
(tseh'-lem) Short Definition: images. ... image, vain show. ...
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4541a. massekah -- a libation, molten metal or image
... 4541, 4541a. massekah. 4541b . a libation, molten metal or image.
Transliteration: massekah Short Definition: images. Word Origin ...
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6456. pasil -- an idol, image
... 6455, 6456. pasil. 6457 . an idol, image. Transliteration: pasil Phonetic Spelling:
(pes-eel') Short Definition: idols. ... carved graven image, quarry. ...
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4541. maccekah -- a libation, molten metal or image
... a libation, molten metal or image. Transliteration: maccekah Phonetic Spelling:
(mas-say-kaw') Short Definition: covering. covering, molten image, vail ...
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5566. semel -- an image, statue
... 5565, 5566. semel or semel. 5567 . an image, statue. Transliteration: semel
or semel Phonetic Spelling: (seh'-mel) Short Definition: idol. ... figure, idol, image ...
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6736. tsir -- an image
... an image. Transliteration: tsir Phonetic Spelling: (tseer) Short Definition: form.
Word Origin from tsur Definition an image NASB Word Usage form (1), idols (1) ...
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5262b. nesek -- molten image
... 5262a, 5262b. nesek. 5263 . molten image. Transliteration: nesek Short
Definition: images. Word Origin from nasak Definition molten ...
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842. Asherah -- a Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same
... 841, 842. Asherah. 843 . a Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same.
Transliteration: Asherah Phonetic Spelling: (ash-ay-raw') Short Definition: Asherim ...
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Whether the Image of God is to be Found in Irrational Creatures?
... THE END OR TERM OF THE PRODUCTION OF MAN (NINE ARTICLES) Whether the image
of God is to be found in irrational creatures? Objection ...
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The Image of God.
... The Plan for Jesus' Coming The Image of God. ... There was dominion or kingship of the
earth by a masterful man bearing the image and imprint of God. ...
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The Image and the Stone
... THE BOOK OF DANIEL THE IMAGE AND THE STONE. 'This ... Lord.'. The passage falls
into two parts: the image and the stone. I. The Image. ...
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The Image of God is to be Sought in the Immortality of the ...
... Book XIV. Chapter 4."The Image of God is to Be Sought in the Immortality of
the Rational Soul. How a Trinity is Demonstrated in the Mind. ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 4 the image of god.htm

Whether the Image of God is in Man?
... THE END OR TERM OF THE PRODUCTION OF MAN (NINE ARTICLES) Whether the image of God
is in man? Objection 1: It would seem that the image of God is not in man. ...
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Image and Likeness.
... First Chapter. INTRODUCTION IV. Image and Likeness. "Let Us make man in
Our image, after Our likeness." "Genesis 1:26. Glorious ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/iv image and likeness.htm

The Image of Self.
... LX. THE IMAGE OF SELF. 23rd Sunday after Trinity. S. Matthew 22. 20.
"Whose is this image?". INTRODUCTION."Some people are very ...
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Whether the Name of Image is Proper to the Son?
... OF THE IMAGE (TWO ARTICLES) Whether the name of Image is proper to the
Son? Objection 1: It would seem that the name of Image is ...
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How Man is the Image of God. Whether the Woman is not Also the ...
... Book XII. Chapter 7."How Man is the Image of God. Whether the Woman is
Not Also the Image of God. How the Saying of the Apostle ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 7 how man is the.htm

The Image of the Beast.
... EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE. The Image of the Beast. "And it was given
to him to give breath to the image of the wild beast, that ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the image of the beast.htm

Image (126 Occurrences)
... directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the
likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror ...
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Image's (1 Occurrence)
...Image's (1 Occurrence). Daniel 2:32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast
and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, (KJV DBY). ...
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Image-worship (1 Occurrence)
Image-worship. Image's, Image-worship. Imagination . Multi-Version
Concordance Image-worship (1 Occurrence). 1 Peter ...
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Pictured (26 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 26:1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone
or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I ...
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Teraphim (14 Occurrences)
... that the "ephod" here mentioned, and also in Judges 8:24-27, was not the part of
the sacerdotal dress so called (Exodus 28:6-14), but an image of Jehovah ...
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Carved (36 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 26:1 Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves
carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land ...
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Statue (15 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance,
as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a ...
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Refiner (10 Occurrences)
... he giveth back the money to his mother, and his mother taketh two hundred silverlings,
and giveth them to a refiner, and he maketh them a graven image, and a ...
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Molten (41 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is
formed; as, a molten image. Int. ... MOLTEN, IMAGE. mol'-t'-n. See IMAGES. ...
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Founder (5 Occurrences)
... 4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of
silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a ...
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