The bolder forms of sculpture, in brass or marble, which peopled the temples of antiquity, were offensive to the fancy or conscience of the Christian Greeks: and a smooth surface of colors has ever been esteemed a more decent and harmless mode of imitation.

[6] [Footnote 2: Nec intelligunt homines ineptissimi, quod si sentire simulacra et moveri possent, adoratura hominem fuissent a quo sunt expolita.

(Divin.Institut.l.ii.c.

2.) Lactantius is the last, as well as the most eloquent, of the Latin apologists.

Their raillery of idols attacks not only the object, but the form and matter.] [Footnote 3: See Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and Augustin, (Basnage, Hist.
des Eglises Reformees, tom.ii.p.