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 was shown from the quotation of two other fragments from the same work. The synod prohibited the copying of the abominable book and declared it worthy to be burnt. The fragment used by the iconoclasts is found in the Acts of the Nicene Synod (Harduin IV, 296; Mansi, XIII, 168; also in Acta Concilii edita a Ph. Labbe et G. Cossart, torn. VII, Parisiis a. 1671, made use of by Bonnet, who also refers (p. XXXI), to different manuscripts and the Latin translation by the librarian Anastasius). The Greek text of Harduin is reprinted by Zahn, p. 223, 224. child, but like the picture of my body. For if that painter, who imitated this my face in the picture, will paint me, he would now lack the colors given to thee as well as tables and opportunity (?) and access (?) and carriage and form and age and youth and everything visible.

29. "But be thou, Lycomedes, a good painter to me. Thou hast colors, which Jesus gives thee through me, who paints all for himself, who knows the shape and form and gesture and disposition and image of our souls. And the colors which I charge thee to lay on are as follows: Belief in God, knowledge, fear of God, love, communion, meekness, goodness, brotherly love, chastity, integrity, firmness, fearlessness, freedom from sorrow, honesty, and the whole chorus of colors, which represents thy soul in the picture, and supports at once thy prostrated members which rose, but appeased, delivered from plagues, heals thy wounds, arranges thy entangled hair, washes thy face, trains thy eyes, purifies thy heart, empties thy stomach, and mutilates the abdomen. In short, if all such colors are combined and mixed in thy soul, they will make it bold, intrepid, and firm, and bring it to our Lord