But since some Cf. Petavius, Theol. Dogm. xv., ch. 12. find fault with us for worshipping and honouring the image of our Saviour and that of our Lady, and those, too, of the rest of the saints and servants of Christ, let them remember that in the beginning God created man after His own image Gen. i. 26.. On what grounds, then, do we shew reverence to each other unless because we are made after God’s image? For as Basil, that much-versed expounder of divine things, says, the honour given to the image passes over to the prototype Basil, De Spir. Sancto, ch. 18.. Now a prototype is that which is imaged, from which the derivative is obtained. Why was it that the Mosaic people honoured on all hands the tabernacle Ex. xxxiii. 10. which bore an image and type of heavenly things, or rather of the whole creation? God indeed said to Moses, Look that thou make them after their pattern which was shewed thee in the mount Ibid. xxv. 40; Heb. viii. 5.. The Cherubim, too, which o’ershadow the mercy seat, are they not the work of men’s hands Ex. xxv. 18.? What, further, is the celebrated temple at Jerusalem? Is it not hand-made and fashioned by the skill of men 1 Kings viii.?