Nick Calibey said...
It's also important to keep in mind that the style of how the arms are raised in the icons that Ninos talks about are different than contemporary worship that we're used to seeing (arms fully outstrecthed, as if literally trying to touch something above you). Ironically, the modern posture was condemned by Tertullian as a form the pagans used (or so I've heard).
From Tertullian "On the Prayer":
17 Moreover we shall the rather commend our prayers to God
by worshipping with restraint and humility, not even lifting the
hands too high but raising them temperately and meetly, not even
holding up our eyes in presumption. For that Publican, who
prayed with humility and dejection not of prayer only but of
countenance, went away justified rather than the insolent
Pharisee.
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