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Is the reason why we shouldn't take the "any THING" so literally is that the temple was ornamented, Moses was commanded to create the serpent figure, etc? This is a matter of context, then?

Maybe a leson on the Hebrew used there would halp too.

True godliness is a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences Him as Lord, embraces His righteousness, and dreads offending Him worse than death~ Calvin