Idolatry: Objects of Described as Senseless Idols

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Deuteronomy 4:28
And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
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Psalm 115:5,7
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
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Library

Impiety of Attributing a visible Form to God. --The Setting up of ...
... how aid is implored from dead and senseless objects, by beings ... pretexts in defence
of the execrable idolatry in which ... in the very way which has been described. ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 11 impiety of attributing.htm

Religious and Social State.
... involving considerable expenditure on objects and places ... a death of the kind described,
is naturally ... and the zeal displayed against idolatry is characteristic ...
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Original Sin
... Satan behind; we run into an idolatry whereof he ... that neither grand nor beautiful
objects please any ... of the ancient Heathens have largely described the vices ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 44 original sin.htm

The So-Called Letter to Diognetus
... The Stupidity of Idolatry. ... latter think that they are offering something to objects
which in ... In the rite of baptism described in Hippolytus' Apostolic Tradition ...
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Answer to the Objection of the Heathen, that it was not Right to ...
... reward of your choice, therefore, as described by Sophocles ... evil one, and prefer
wisdom to idolatry, and take ... lest the multitude of pleasing objects which rise ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter x answer to the objection.htm

The Prophecies
... looked around them and seen some pleasing objects, have given ... Daniel 12:7. Having
described all the extent of ... That then idolatry would be overthrown; that this ...
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Christianity Misunderstood by Believers.
... faith, he would certainly have described this institution ... and even proximity to these
objects, touching them ... is an external observance of the rites of idolatry. ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter iii christianity misunderstood by.htm

The Sibylline Oracles.
... These evils are a punishment for the idolatry which profane kings introduced into
Greece ... Greece will some day cast away its idols and turn to the true God, and ...
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A Plea Regarding Christians by Athenagoras, the Athenian
... Idols and Idolatry. ... How much less can I call those objects gods, whose makers I ... gods
their names, assigned them honors and functions, and described their forms ...
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Against Jovinianus.
... too, what [4259] Virgil says of senseless noise ... But, if our adversary objects that
this saying relates to ... thy table." Therefore his grave is described as placed ...
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