Question 4

Flow ought we to think of the E-tkons 2

ANSWER.

As we are taught by the Divine and Sacred Scriptures, which say plainly, ‘Thou shalt not make to thyself an idol, or a likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath; thou shalt not adore them, nor shalt thou worship them;’ since we ought to worship, not the creature, but only the Creator and Maker of the heaven and of the earth, and Him only to adore. From which it is evident that we do not reject pictorial representations, which are a noble art, and we permit those that so desire to have Eikons of Christ and of the Saints; but the worship and service of them, as being forbidden by the Holy Spirit in Sacred Scripture, we reject, lest we should forget, and instead of the Creator and Maker, adore colours, and art, and creatures. And him that thinketh otherwise we regard as wretched, and having awful darkness in his mind, and _ his heart hardened. And it were better to yield

obedience to the commandment of God than to be persuaded by the vain reasonings of men; as we have explained in the fear of God and with a good conscience; though the subject, we acknowledge, might have been treated of better. Having thus answered in writing those that interrogated us, we conclude, and subjoin the answers to our Confession. And may the Lord give to all to be right-minded in all things, and to have a sincere conscience.

Given at Constantinople in the Month of January 1631.

Cyrit, Patriarch of Constantinople.t

η UMD Ue KIM ibe

(NCES αμ, 120, Rom. i., 22.

Lh Onn ο freed Pens hoe

Abaci it, το. Ἑν cxti ο ine

John iv., 32. Deut. νι τα,

+ Aymonius adds: Οἰκείᾳ χειρὶ ἔχραψα, written with my own hand.

Viii., 39. οτι Matt. iv., το. OMI Ks Tetra eg: Gal. iv., 8. ου πα 2 3 πλοία, 2.5. Coline

ο κα χί Τ. Wis. xiv., 12.

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