Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make for you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

to understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. And he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

Which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able to make the man officiating fully perfect in respect to conscience,

Having reckoned that God is able to raise up even from the dead, from where also, in a figure, he did receive him back.