IMAGE — the root of 'icon', and not a copy at a distance but the VISIBLE MANIFESTATION of the thing itself: an emperor's eikōn stamped on a coin was his presence in the marketplace, which is why refusing to honour it was treason. It is the Septuagint's word at Genesis 1:26 for the image of God in humankind, and Colossians 1:15 uses it of Christ as 'the image of the invisible God' — saying that what Adam was made to be, he is. The related eikonoklastēs, image-breaker, gave English 'iconoclast'. → first discussed at Colossians 1:15