“Miserable paganism not only worshipped the human form shaped in insensible things as a deity, but also perversely adored the forms of other animals, nor did it have a just discernment in any matter. For according to the consideration of truth, living things are set before the dead, and sensible things before insensibl…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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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.
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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.
18Yea, they worshipped those beasts also that are most hateful: for being compared together, some are worse than others.