In the law, the Lord of heaven and earth and sea has commanded,
saying, “Worship not vain gods made by your own hands out of wood or gold, lest
My wrath destroy you for such things.” The people before Moses, unskilled,
living without law, and ignorant of God, prayed to gods that perished, after
the likenesses of which they fashioned vain idols. The Lord having brought the
Jews out of the land of Egypt, subsequently imposed on them a law; and the
Omnipotent enjoined these things, that they should serve Him alone, and not
those idols. Moreover, in that law is taught concerning the resurrection, and
the hope of living in happiness again in the world, if vain idols be forsaken
and not worshipped.
When
Almighty God, to beautify the nature of the world willed that that earth should
be visited by angels, when they were sent down they despised His laws. Such was
the beauty of women that it turned them aside; so that, being contaminated,
they could not return to heaven. Rebels from God, they uttered words against
Him. Then the Highest uttered His judgment against them; and from their seed
giants are said to have been born.
By
them arts were made known in the earth, and they taught the dyeing of wool, and
everything which is done; and to them, when they died, men erected images. But
the Almighty, because they were of an evil seed, did not approve that, when
dead, they should be brought back from death. From there, wandering, they now
subvert many bodies, and it is such as these especially that you this day
worship and pray to as gods.
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