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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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