The Second Commandment (2): Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thyself Any Graven Image.

As was shown, what this second command forbids is that man shall make to himself an image of any creature, to bow down himself to this image and to serve it; for the man doing so, is saying to that creature before whose image he is prostrated, "Thou art god and my god". So it became plain, that the worshipper of the image deifies the creature before whose image he bows, so that this creature occupies Jehovah's place in his thoughts. Thus it became clear that image-worship is representative of...