Of course, it is a comfort to know that the ideal of Jehovah, thus not tied down to the level of anthropomorphic representation, was thereby delivered and made ideally free. Perhaps in the first place the fiat of prohibition issued psychologically from a subsense that the Hebrew blood could not produce anything ideal enough to be admired or creative of respect and adoration, however in finite the permission and opportunity. Its birthright-genius was aniconic; a capability for passionate devotion to an abstract ideal.