Idolatry and Heresy Introduced

The shadow of a lion cannot hurt you the way the lion itself can. The shadow of a tornado likewise cannot work the devastation that the tornado itself brings. These shadows may fill one with fear; but they shed no blood, and cause nothing to be blown to pieces. Likewise the thorns and thistles, in the land into which Adam and Eve were driven after God spoke the mother promise, in no way and to no degree compare with the punishment of hell, which God has in His Word revealed to be the punishment...