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If through delight in the beauty of these things men assumed them to be gods, let them know how much better than these is their Lord, for the author of beauty created them.
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And if men were amazed at their power and working, let them perceive from them how much more powerful is he who formed them.
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For from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator.
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Yet these men are little to be blamed, for perhaps they go astray while seeking God and desiring to find him.
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For as they live among his works they keep searching, and they trust in what they see, because the things that are seen are beautiful.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.