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For even in the beginning, when arrogant giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft, and guided by thy hand left to the world the seed of a new generation.
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For blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes.
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But the idol made with hands is accursed, and so is he who made it; because he did the work, and the perishable thing was named a god.
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For equally hateful to God are the ungodly man and his ungodliness,
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for what was done will be punished together with him who did it.
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Therefore there will be a visitation also upon the heathen idols, because, though part of what God created, they became an abomination, and became traps for the souls of men and a snare to the feet of the foolish.
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For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, and the invention of them was the corruption of life,
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for neither have they existed from the beginning nor will they exist for ever.
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For through the vanity of men they entered the world, and therefore their speedy end has been planned.
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For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement, made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him; and he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being, and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations.
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Then the ungodly custom, grown strong with time, was kept as a law, and at the command of monarchs graven images were worshiped.