Augustine of Hippo : Do not forget the covenant that the Lord your God has concluded with you, nor make any carved likeness of all the things that the Lord your God has forbidden you. Speaking here in a general way, the word similarity has been put on and has been omitted where there is an image, there is necessarily a similarity, although in image, because if no similarity is made, it is clear that no image is made, because where there is a similarity, that is not why there is necessarily an image there. 8 (Deuteronomy 4.32). The meaning of these words must be investigated: Ask the ancient times, which have preceded you, from the day when God created man on earth and from one end of heaven to the other; it is understood: ask. It seems that the entire orb of the earth is indicated here. But it is not easy to know why it is said: from one end of the sky to the other, and it is not said: "from one end of the earth to the other." A similar expression also appears in the Gospel, when the Lord says that the elect will be gathered from one end of the heavens to the other (Matthew 24,31). Perhaps it is wanted to say here that neither the men nor the angels never heard say what God has done of singularísimo with this town. For the text goes on saying: If something as great as this has been done; if something similar has been heard. If any people have heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it and have survived (Deuteronomy 4,33). And if the thing is like that, that is, that God says that neither men nor angels have heard anything similar, what do those words of the Gospel mean: from one end of the heavens to the other, when the Lord says this when speaking of the last meeting of your chosen ones? — QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 7 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)