Likeness, not fraudulent counterfeit

Meaning

The supplied notes explain the work’s portrait and likeness vocabulary against a misleading modern association with fraudulent counterfeiting. The four-part programme and the opening of the spiritual exposition use representation to make an earthly work illuminate a heavenly one. In this setting, the comparison is asserted as instructive likeness, not exposed as deceit.

That distinction matters because deception is condemned elsewhere in the same volume. A word that resembles modern “counterfeit” cannot be assigned the fraudulent sense merely from its appearance. Consult the exact historical forms in the Figure article: the notes’ capitalized access labels and the body’s actual spellings are not interchangeable evidence records.