Reference: Image
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An exact and complete copy or counterpart of any thing. Christ is called "the image of God," 2Co 4:4; Col 1:15; Heb 1:3, as being the same in nature and attributes. The image of God in which man was created, Ge 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, Ge 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, 1Co 15:47-49; 2Co 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, Ps 73:20; Heb 10:1. It is usually applied in the Bible to representations of false gods, painted, graven, etc., Da 3. All use of images in religious worship was clearly and peremptorily prohibited, Ex 20:4-5; De 16:22; Ac 17:16; Ro 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 beach of the second commandment, and by the best in opposition to both the letter and the spirit of the Bible, Ex 20:4-5; 32:4-5; De 4:15; Isa 40:18-31; Joh 4:23-24; Re 22:8-9.
The "chambers of imagery," in Eze 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.
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But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for, indeed, the Father seeketh such to be His worshipers. God is a spirit; and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
And, while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him, observing that the city was full of idols.
and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles.
The first man is of the earth earthy; the second Man is from Heaven. As was the earthy, such also are the earthy; and as is the Heavenly, such also are the heavenly. read more. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the Heavenly.
in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.
Who is the image of the invisible God, Primal Source of all creation;
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it was fitting in the Lord.
Who, being an effulgence of His glory and an exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very likeness of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, perfect those who come to them;
And I, John, am he who heard and saw these things. And, when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. And he says, "See that you do it not. I am a fellow-servant with you and with your brethren the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: worship God."
Hastings
In theological usage the term 'image' occurs in two connexions: (1) as defining the nature of man ('God created man in his own image,' Ge 1:27); and (2) as describing the relation of Christ as Son to the Father ('who is the image of the invisible God,' Col 1:15). These senses, again, are not without connexion; for, as man is re-created in the image of God
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld His glory??lory as of the Only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
Jesus saith to him, "So long a time am I with you, and you do not know Me, Philip! He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how say you, 'Show us the Father?'
And, now, Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine Own Self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.
because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.
For a man, indeed, ought not to veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;
But we all, with unveiled face, reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.
and put on the new man, who after God was created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
and put on the new man, who after God was created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Who is the image of the invisible God, Primal Source of all creation;
Who is the image of the invisible God, Primal Source of all creation;
and having put on the new man who is being renewed unto full knowledge, according to the image of Him Who created him;
and having put on the new man who is being renewed unto full knowledge, according to the image of Him Who created him;
and having put on the new man who is being renewed unto full knowledge, according to the image of Him Who created him;
Who, being an effulgence of His glory and an exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Therewith we bless the Lord and Father; and therewith we curse men, who have been made after the likeness of God.
Morish
Besides the many references to graven and molten images connected with idolatry, which the law strictly forbade the Israelites to make, the word is used in several important connections: for instance, God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion . . . . so God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." Ge 1:26-27; 5:1; 9:6. The word translated 'image' is tselem, which is the same that is used for idolatrous images, and for the great image in Daniel 2.
It might naturally have been thought that man at his fall would have ceased to be in the image and likeness of God, but it is not so represented in scripture. On speaking of man as the head of the woman, it says he ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as "he is the image and glory of God." 1Co 11:7. Again, in Jas 3:9, we find "made after the similitude (or likeness, ????????) of God." In what respects man is the image and likeness of God may not be fully grasped, but it is at least obvious that an image is a representation. The Lord when shown a penny asked 'whose image' is this? They said, Caesar's. It may not have been well executed, and so not have been a likeness. It may also have been very much battered, as money often is, yet that would not have interfered with its being the image of Caesar: it represented him, and no one else. So man as the head of created beings in connection with the earth represents God: to him was given dominion over every living thing that moveth upon the earth and in the sea and in the air. This was of course in subjection to God, and so man was in His image.
This is seen in perfection in the second Man, who has in resurrection superseded Adam, who was in this sense a figure or type of Christ. Ro 5:14. Man may be a battered and soiled image of his Creator, but that does not touch the question of his having been made in the image of God.
Likeness goes further; but was there not in man a certain moral and mental likeness to God? He not only represents God on earth, but, as one has said, he thinks for others, refers to and delights in what God has wrought in creation, and in what is good, having his moral place among those who do. The likeness, alas, may be very much blurred; but the features are there: such as reflection, delight, love of goodness and beauty; none of which are found in a mere animal. With Christ all is of course perfect: as man He is "the image of God;" "the image of the invisible God." 2Co 4:4; Col 1:15.
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but yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who sinned not after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of Him Who was to come.
For a man, indeed, ought not to veil his head; being God's image and glory; but the woman is man's glory;
in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.
Who is the image of the invisible God, Primal Source of all creation;
Therewith we bless the Lord and Father; and therewith we curse men, who have been made after the likeness of God.
Smith
Image.
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Watsons
IMAGE, in a religious sense, is an artificial representation of some person or thing used as an object of adoration, and is synonymous with idol. Nothing can be more clear, full, and distinct, than the expressions of Scripture prohibiting the making and worship of images, Ex 20:4-5; De 16:22. No sin is so strongly and repeatedly condemned in the Old Testament as that of idolatry, to which the Jews, in the early part of their history, were much addicted, and for which they were constantly punished. St. Paul was greatly affected, when he saw that the city of Athens was "wholly given to idolatry," Ac 17:16; and declared to the Athenians, that they ought not "to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device," Ac 17:29. He condemns those who "changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things," Ro 1:23.
That the first Christians had no images, is evident from this circumstance,
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And, while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him, observing that the city was full of idols.
"Being, therefore, God's offspring, we ought not to suppose that the God-head is like gold, or silver, or stone, graven by man's art and device!
and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and quadrupeds, and reptiles.