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Chapter
VIII.—No Gods Which are Made with Hands.
“Therefore reduce your gods of gold and
silver, or any other material, to their original nature; I mean into
cups and basins and all other utensils, such as may be useful to you
for service; and those good things which were given you at first shall
be able to be restored. But perhaps you will say, The laws of the
emperors do not permit us to do this.1123
| 1123 [This, with
the corresponding passage in Recognitions, v. 15, points to an
early origin of the literature, under the heathen
emperors.—R.] | You say well that it is the law,
and not the power of the vain idols themselves, which is nothing.
How, then, have ye regarded them as gods, who are avenged by human
laws, guarded by dogs, kept by multitudes?—and that if they are
of gold, or silver, or brass. For those of wood or earthenware
are preserved by their worthlessness, because no man desires to steal a
wooden or earthenware god! So that your gods are exposed to
danger in proportion to the value of the material of which they are
made. How, then, can they be gods, which are stolen, molten,
weighed, guarded?
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