He forbid that due to a simple reason that he did not want his followers to become idol worshipers and start worshiping images or statues of him. (gigaom.com)
The point of this theological excursus is to say that the persons to whom utopian ideals of the future are addressed are in varying degrees idol worshipers who do not find it easy to free themselves from them to seek more inclusive values. (religion-online.org)
But that he was spreading Christianity and thereby driving out pagans and other idol worshipers. (nakedpastor.com)