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a material effigy that is worshipped
thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
money was his god
How To Use graven image In A Sentence
- The prohibition against graven images of God in the twentieth chapter of "Exodus" becomes an indictment of representation that targets the very foundations of modernity: thou shalt not make of God an object.
- So two things that these women don't appreciate, that kind of invasiveness and the graven image thing. Cherie Louise Turner: Photography that Looks at Us: An Interview with Curator Sandra S. Phillips about Exposed at SFMOMA
- They were horrible times — times in which there were monks and friars and graven images, which people kissed and worshipped and sang pennillion to. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
- If an image is automatically an idol, why did God tell Israel to have graven images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant?
- graven images
- thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
- Thou hast made a graven image and Jeroboam-like wouldst have everyone else bow down before thy calf.
- Americans can make any graven image they wish to make, and bow down to whatever god or idol they wish.
- The religious justification derives from the ban on graven images, common to the jealous God of the Old Testament and to Allah.
- If an image is automatically an idol, why did God tell Israel to have graven images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant?