...for images: Insofar as the Christian God had become incarnate - "becomes visible to flesh," "empties Himself and takes the form of a servant in substance and in stature and is found in a body of flesh" - one could "depict," "draw," and "show" Him, "use every kind of drawing, word, or color." 31 The Damascene's...

...without form, immeasurable in the boundlessness of his own nature, existing in the form of God, empties himself and takes the form of a servant in substance...his image and show it to anyone willing to gaze upon it."7 How is this done? "Depict his wonderful condescension, his birth from the Virgin, his Baptism...