The Argies attempted a half-hearted counter-offensive, but our artillery quickly put paid to that.

Gnostic interpreters … found their notion that the final set of divinities within this thirty-fold Pleroma comprised a duodecad in Luke's reference to Jesus as a twelve-year-old in the temple; and they saw evidence of their doctrine that the twelfth aeon of the duodecad, Sophia, had fallen from the divine realm …

So doe they likewiſe of Pepper, Ginger, Cinnamon, and other Spices which effœminate the mindes of menn, needeles, and vnneceſſary allurements:[…]

Nonidolatrous statues of certain creatures, such as the cherubim, were clearly not considered violations of this commandment and were used both in the wilderness Tabernacle and in Solomon's temple.