Roman Councils deny absolute god-cult of images, yet require relative cult of Christ, Mary, and saints
Roman Councils refuse to call images gods or to vest them with absolute, highest cult.
Yet they steadily require some cult of Christ’s, Mary’s, and the saints’ images—for the prototype, not for the image as such.
Latin
I. Ex iis quae Thesibus praecedentibus allata sunt, liquido patet, Concilia Ecclesiae Romanae, non docere quidem ullas imagines habendas esse pro diis, aut aliquam virtutem iis esse tribuendam, ob quam coli debeant cultu summo atque absoluto: eadem tamen concilia constanter statuere imagines, non solum Christi, sed etiam Deiparae Virginis, & reliquorum Sanctorum aliquo cultu dignas esse, non propter se, sed propter exemplar quod repraesentant.