Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Whose image then will you have him be? God’s? Then he is exactly like the one to whom you assign him. If you compare him to a human image, say so, and I’ll be done with you as a madman…. “The image of the invisible” is itself also invisible, and invisible in the same way, for otherwise it would not be an image. For an image, so far as it is an image, even on a human level, ought to be exactly similar, as, for example, in respect of the features and the likeness. But here indeed among us, this is by no means possible; for human art fails in many respects, or rather fails in all, if you make a careful examination. But where God is, there is no error, no failure.
