Holy Scripture
Deuteronomy 4:16
A church father on this verse
“We create other images in ourselves instead of the Savior's image. Instead of being the image of the Word, or of wisdom, justice, and the rest of the virtues, we assume the form of the devil. Then we can be called "serpents" and "a generation of vipers." When we are venomous, cruel or wily, we have taken on the charac…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16lest ye transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,
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14And the Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you ordinances and judgments, that ye should do them on the land, into which ye go to inherit it.
15And take good heed to your hearts, for ye saw no similitude in the day in which the Lord spoke to you in Horeb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire:
— Deuteronomy 4:16 —
17the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,
18the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;