Holy Scripture
Wisdom of Solomon 15:19
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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 worshipeth: Whereas he lived once, but they never.
18Yea, they worshiped those beasts also that are most hateful: For being compared together, some are worse than others.
— Wisdom of Solomon 15:19 —