Question

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. the quotation above represents the position of what group of people in the byzantine empire? iconodules iconoclasts the greens the blues

Explanation:

The quote condemns the creation and veneration of religious images, which is the core position of Byzantine Iconoclasts, who opposed religious iconography, viewing it as blasphemous. Iconodules supported religious images, while the Greens and Blues were chariot racing factions with no direct link to this theological stance.

Answer:

Iconoclasts