...which says, thou shalt not make unto thyself, any graven image, or any likeness of any thing in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the 'waters under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, i • In this transaction, we therefore...

...to possess as his own pe. culiar property) any graven image: not the likeness of any thing in heaven above; or on the earth beneath; or in the waters under the earth." — The awful threat which could not fail to operate as a most powerful inducement follows — " Thou...

...Exod. xx. 4. Here tho words image and likeness are used to represent the appearance of any thing in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. The Jews did not understand the words image and likeness to mean moral perfections, they could not...

...the most comprehensive terms: " Thou shall not make unto thee any likeness of any thing which is in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." There is a reference to the images used by the Gentiles, which were of various forms, and were representations...

...production of strange many-coloured designs, having no prototypes in anything we know either ' in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth ; ' but having a spiritual significance which may either be revealed through the individual by whom...

...which says, thou shall not make, unto- thyself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth: thou shall not boiv down thyself to them nor serve them. We here therefore behold a power seated in...

...forbidden in the word of God to " bow down to or before graven images, or likenesses of any thing in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth," and yet the Romish Church, which claims to be Holy and Catholic, commands all in its communion to bow...

...Creation.' It is sufficient to state that the drawings there given bear no resemblance to any thing in the heavens above or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, nor to any fossil organism that has ever been discovered. At length the progress of investigation led to...

...can be worshipped without the aid of either '. graven image, or the likeness of anything in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." The universal tendency to materialize objects of worship is specially strong in China, as might be...

...doctores umbratin who in every age have wooed the muse ; their representations, like nothing in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, being but so many wild dreams, and their sentiments and language every way worthy of the matter. None...