The Image Worship of the Church of Rome Proved to Be Contrary to Holy Scriptur
The Image Worship of the Church of Rome Proved to Be Contrary to Holy Scriptur
Tyler James Endell
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V. Cap. Vi. 124 IMAGE-WORSHIP. them not to make even a graven image, Himself have shapen an image in the likeness of the holy beings [or the saints]. " TERTULLIAN, A. D. 190. MINUTIUS FELIX. Contemporary with Irenseus in Gaul, and Clement in Alexandria, was Tertullian. We find in his writings no intimation, that the images either of the saints or of Christ, or any representation of the Almighty, were ad- mitted into the Christian Church in his time. And yet it is scarcely possible, that, had th...ey been then used, he would have made no allusion to it, when he is pursuing the question, as put by the heathen in his time, "If men worship none of these things, what do they worship?"* But he makes no allusion of the kind, nor does he (any more than Clement of Alexandria) make any exceptions or explanations with reference to the vene- ration of images. Had Tertulliau himself used or worshipped images, or had he known of the worship and use of them in the Christian Church, he could not possibly, without any exceptions or reservations, have written passages so condemnatory of the whole system of image-worship as these : " Sometime in past ages there was no idol.
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