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 What the textbook refers to as a puritan outlook was probably a blend of what two influences?

            The puritan outlook that condemned icons was an Asiatic protest against Greek tradition. The text mentions that this attitude was particularly strong in Asia Minor and that two of the leading Iconoclast emperors, Leo III and Leo V, were of Asiatic origin. Over and above this fact, though, the puritan view saw in the words of the Second Commandment a prohibition against all images and could not see that the commandment applies to the making, bowing down before and worshipping idols, something repugnant to God. This outlook therefore saw all images as a form of latent idolatry.