What avails, then, the folly of the painter, who from sinful love of gain depicts that which should not be depicted—that is, with his polluted hands he tries to fashion that which should only be believed in the heart and confessed with the mouth? Those fall into the same blasphemy who venerate the image, and the same woe rests upon both."
Which of the following figures would have been most likely to write a response to the quotation above strongly disagreeing with it?
Emperor Leo III
Emperor Leo V
John of Damascus
Justinian