4-6. Second Commandment and Pictures—A few condemned pictures, urging that they are prohibited by the second commandment, and that everything of this kind should be destroyed.... The second commandment prohibits image worship; but God himself employed pictures and symbols to represent to His prophets lessons which He would have them give to the people, and which could thus be better understood than if given in any other way. He appealed to the understanding through the sense of sight. Prophetic history was presented to Daniel and John in symbols, and these were to be represented plainly upon tables, that he who read might understand (Historical Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Seventh-day Adventists, 212).{1BC 1106.1}

4-6. Det andet bud og billeder. - Nogle få fordømte billeder, der fortæller at de er forbudte ved det andet bud, og alt af den slags bør udslettes. . . . . Det andet bud forbyder billedtilbedelse; men Gud selv bruger billeder og symboler til at vise Sine profeter de lektier som han vil have at han giver til folket, og som således bedre kunne forstås, end hvis det blev givet på en anden måde. Han appellerer til forståelsen gennem øjets sans. Profetisk historie blev præsenteret for Daniel og Johannes i symboler, og disse skulle repræsenters tydeligt på tavlerne, så han der læser kan forstå (HS 212).