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Idols Make Their Entry into the World[a]

12 The invention of idols marked the origin of immorality;
    their discovery corrupted human life.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom 14:12 The cult of idols perverts human beings. The immorality spoken about in verse 12 is undoubtedly infidelity toward God and his covenant (see Hos 1–2), and the incommunicable name (Wis 14:21) is that of God, with the supreme sacrilege being to have it borne by a creature.