7. And, indeed, having some familiarity with him through his works, they search, and they are persuaded, because the things that they are seeing are good.
8. But, then again, neither can their debt be ignored.
9. For, if they were able to know enough so that they could value the universe, how is it they did not easily discover the Lord of it?
10. Yet they are unhappy, and their hope is among the dead, for they have called 'gods' the works of the hands of men, gold and silver, the inventions of skill, and the likeness of animals, or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand.