In book 2, chapter 27, Molanus discusses images of the Virgin Mary that contain an error but do not pose a real danger. The chapter thus fits in the greater scheme created by the author in the work in which he categorises images and the errors they contain and whether these are to be condemned or not and according to what or whom. An important source for his judgement is the judgement of the Council of Trent, as in several instances of the chapter Molanus creates a relation between the text from the Council of Trent and the meaning of this specific motif.
The second case presented in this chapter is the depiction of the Nativity of Christ in which the Blessed Virgin Mary kneeling in front of the infant and adoring him.
“On the other hand, one can approve without reservation those paintings of the Nativity of Christ where the Blessed Virgin Mary herself is painted kneeling with her hands folded before her baby son, the latter already radiating light. For, as the Church sings on the day of purification, she adored the very one she had generated.”
“Verum admodum probandae sunt illae picturae Christi Nativitatem repraesentantes, in quibus ipsa beata Virgo Maria complicatis manibus et flexis genibus ante parvulum suum filium, quasi iam in lucem editum depingitur. Ipsum enim quem genuit, ut Ecclesia canit, adoravit.”
Molanus 1996, 197-198.