The highest aim of an idol is to make the delight we experience in vision itself perceptible to us
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The highest aim of an idol is to make the delight we experience in vision itself perceptible to us 0 0 1Then it must be true that...
Idols arrest our vision to nothing outside itself 0 0 1Mentions
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