Collationes de Decem Praeceptis · Collation 23

129. In the third word: Neither shall you make a likeness of those things that are in the heavens etc., all perverse valuations of worldly natures are prohibited. Now every perverse valuation of creatures proceeds either by reason of sublimity, or by reason of sufficiency, or by reason of delight. In the first way it is the idolatry of the proud; in the second way it is the idolatry of the avaricious: in the third way it is the idolatry of the lascivious. Against the first the Prophet says: There shall be no new god in you, nor shall you adore a strange god: against the second the Apostle says: Avarice is the servitude of idols: against the third the Apostle says: Whose god is their belly. At another time, God willing, we shall pursue this more fully.