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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 your 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 the one who made it— he for having made it, and the perishable thing because it was named a god.
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For equally hateful to God are the ungodly and their ungodliness;
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for what was done will be punished together with the one 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, snares for human souls and a trap for 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 they did not exist from the beginning, nor will they last forever.
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For through human vanity 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; 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 carved images were worshiped.