' And I looked at Him, and the wooden image was laughing.

’我看着他，木像在笑。

Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say, 'My images brought them about; my wooden image and metal god ordained them'.

所以我从古时将这事给你说明，在未成以先指示你，免得你说：‘这些事是我的偶像所行的，是我雕刻的偶像和我铸造的偶像所命定的。’

But if they have not the same form, they must have only the name in common, and it is as if one were to call both Callias and a wooden image a 'man', without observing any community between them.

但如果他们没有相同的形式，他们一定只有共同的名字，这就好像一个人把卡利亚斯和一个木像都称为“人”一样，而没有观察到他们之间有任何共同体。