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For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and the invention of them is the corruption of life.
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For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.
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For by the vanity of men they came into the world: and therefore they shall be found to come shortly to an end.
15
For a father being afflicted with bitter grief, made to himself the image of his son who was quickly taken away: and him who then had died as a man, he began now to worship as a god, and appointed him rites and sacrifices among his servants.
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Then in process of time, wicked custom prevailing, this error was kept as a law, and statues were worshipped by the commandment of tyrants.