“Paganism was so disgusting that it not only worshiped as gods the image of human beings shaped in insensible material, but it also gave perverse cult to the images of other animals, being entirely without discretion in this regard. Indeed, according to the sense of the truth, the living are prior to the dead, and sens…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — ON ECCLESIASTICUS 3:6
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18Yea, they worshipped those beasts also that are most hateful: for being compared together, some are worse than others.
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16For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.
17For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands: for he himself is better than the things which he worshippeth: whereas he lived once, but they never.
— Wisdom of Solomon 15:18 —
19Neither are they beautiful, so much as to be desired in respect of beasts: but they went without the praise of God and his blessing.