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What the Fathers say

Isaiah 40:18

Western Saints

Jerome

To whom then will you liken God, or what image will you set before Him? Can the craftsman make a graven image, or the goldsmith overlay it with gold, and the silversmith spread silver plates upon it? Or perhaps the skilled craftsman chooses a piece of wood that will not rot and seeks out a proficient artisan to fashion an image that will not move. …

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Thomas Aquinas

Here he excludes the error of the idolaters. And first, he mocks this error as to the intention of the worker, that they wished to make a god: then, consequently, he is so powerful, to whom have you likened God, he speaks according to the error of those who thought the likenesses themselves were gods, or what image, as to those who thought the things of which they were likenesses were gods, as the sun or the moon: who is like to you, among the strong, O Lord? (Exod 15:11).

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