The Trinity and the Father's Image

St. Basil is defending the Trinity, saying that Christ and the Father both equally share the same divine nature, but both are distinct persons. St. Athanasius gave a similar analogy in his arguments against the Aryans. An image of the son and the son himself share the same person, but they each have a different nature. And as in works of art, the likeness is dependent on the form. It follows that the veneration of the image is veneration of Christ.