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Since the Word Became Flesh in assuming a true Humanity, Christ's body was finite. 112 Therefore the human face of Jesus can be portrayed; at the seventh ecumenical Council (Nicaea II in 787) the Church recognized its representation in holy Images to be Legitimate. 113

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