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Question 98

But may not images be tolerated in the churches, as books to the laity?

No: for we must not pretend to be wiser than God, who will have his people taught, not by dump images,1 but by the lively preaching of his word.2


1 Jer. 10:8; Hab. 2:18, 19.

2 Rom. 10:14, 15, 17; 2 Pet. 1:19; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17.

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