. Babel and Bible;. rations, as we should properly condemnsuch ridicule if directed at the gods of Homer. Norshould the worship of divinities in images of wood orstone be in any wise glossed over. Only it should notbe forgotten that even the Biblical account of creation has man created uin thelikeness of God, in dia-metrical contradiction ofthe constantly emphasised spirituality of God,—as has rightly been pointedout by students of in view of this fact wecan understand after all howthe Babylonians reversedthis method and conceivedand represented their godsin the image of man. The
. Babel and Bible;. rations, as we should properly condemnsuch ridicule if directed at the gods of Homer. Norshould the worship of divinities in images of wood orstone be in any wise glossed over. Only it should notbe forgotten that even the Biblical account of creation has man created uin thelikeness of God, in dia-metrical contradiction ofthe constantly emphasised spirituality of God,—as has rightly been pointedout by students of in view of this fact wecan understand after all howthe Babylonians reversedthis method and conceivedand represented their godsin the image of man. The prophets of the OldTestament do exactly thesame thing, at least in perfect agreement withthe Babylonians and Assy-rians the prophet Habakkuk(chap, iii.) sees Yahveh ap-proach with horses and char-iot, bow and arrows and lance, and even with u horns athis side,1 with horns, the symbol of authority andstrength and victory (cp. Numbers xxiii. 22), the cus-tomary adornment of the headdress of both higher and. Fig. 78. Horns the Emblem ofStrength. 1R. V., rays coming forth from his hand BABEL AND BIBLE. 105 lower divinities among the Assyrio-Babylonians (). And the representations of God the Father inChristian art: in Michael Angelo, Raphael, and all ourillustrated Bibles,—the representation of the first day of
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