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 also of opinion that the reason why "idols" are called 5, may be found in the circumstance that they are wor- shipped on account oi some idea conveyed by them,  not on account of their figure and shape. In the same way is used the expression 5'r0 D, "the forrn oi your emerods" (1 Sam. vi. 5), for the chief object was the removal of the injury caused by the eraerode, not a change of their shape. If, however, it must be assumed that the images of the eraerode and the idols are called on account of their external shape, the term 5t would be either a real or an apparent homonym, and would denote Both the specific form and the arti//cial shape,  or similar properties relating to the dimensions and the figure of mate- rial bodies; and in the phrase m 'u , "Let us make man in our form" (Gen. i. 26), the term 5 would then passage, iz., ?:l]'l ID, the object of ?:lrl cannot be the outer appearance of the persons referred to in that Psalm: for God looks only to the heart of man, not to hi, outer appearance. Comp. Eta Chayyim, ch. lt33 t31133. "But won o ay= (t3J3 1301!) ' thou wLlt deapiso thoi 󿼠 orm,' ho does not mean by' form' (13{l) the _hpe o󿽣 tho ]imbe, but thoir o t. he confitaent nc] ]eadin e]ement in theL existence; or the oontemp% oa 3nly pp]y to the nobler I)a in man'a eence."  It.," that weh  onsht in thom, the iaea wi!󿽂h they repreaent" qqtt; Tibbon, l, Oh. ir3)an abstract conception, not their external .or., eto. The Arabie tt:l ))Dtt is rendered by T. :l/r, by Ch. 1 ' . Munk (page 35, note 2), leur ens (l'ide)qu'on s'imagina/t, o'est/ d/re, la fausse id6e qu'on se formalt d' elles ou la vertu qu'on leur attribuait par errour.  Here Maimonides abandons his proposition that r in the Bible denotes r󿽂luie//" form" in the philosophical sense of the word. He admits, that in r'D "idols" and in I'l?lt0 '1 "the images of your eraerode," the word may perhaps refer to external likenoes. The only proof maintained by our author in all circumstances is the phrase ,'I?2FI rDZ. Comp. Ets Chayyfm of your emerods' the word refers to their artificial form; it refers to the natural form in the following passage, ' and the orm of his visage was changed'" ()au. iii. x9)