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Rh gazed on it reverently. Theodore writes in the spirit of St. Francis and Thomas à Kempis: "The true Christian is nothing but a copy or impression of Christ," and he quotes Dionysius the Areopagite when he says, "The archetype appears in the image." Unfortunately this line of argument would almost justify idolatry per se, when distinguished from fetishism.