Note 1092 — Chapter II · RELIGION IN DAILY LIFE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
The remarkable judgment in his De Sacris Diebus, the work of his later years, refers both to sacred and profane art (l. i.). Among the Jews, he says, there was a good reason for prohibiting all graven images, else they would have relapsed into the idolatry or devil-worship of the nations around them:
Nunc autem, postquam penitus natura Satanum Cognita, et antiqua sine majestate relicta est, Nulla ferunt nobis statuae discrimina, nullos Fert pictura dolos; jam sunt innoxia signa; Sunt modo virtutum testes monimentaque laudum Marmora, et aeternae decora immortalia famae.