Canon 82 Christ painted in human form, not as a lamb

In certain paintings of the venerable icons a lamb is portrayed, pointed out by the finger of the Forerunner, which was received as a type of grace, showing forth to us beforehand through the law the true Lamb, Christ our God. Embracing, then, the ancient types and shadows handed down to the Church, as symbols and foreshadowings of the truth, we prefer grace and truth, having received it as the fulfilment of the law. In order therefore that what is perfect may be delineated, even in the works of colour, before the eyes of all, we decree that from now on the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world, Christ our God, be set up in his human form in the icons also, instead of the ancient lamb; through it perceiving the height of the humiliation of God the Word, and being led by the hand to the remembrance of his way of life in the flesh, of his passion and saving death, and of the redemption which thence came to the world.