6. But, from the beginning, when the proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world, fleeing by boat, gave back to future ages a seed of birth, which was governed by your hand.
7. For blessed is the wood through which justice is made.
8. But, through the hand that makes the idol, both it, and he who made it, is accursed: he, indeed, because it has been served by him, and it, because, though it is fragile, it is called 'god.'
9. But the impious and his impiety are similarly offensive to God.
10. For that which is made, together with him who made it, will suffer torments.
11. Because of this, and according to the idolatries of the nations, there will be no refuge, for the things created by God have been made into hatred, and into a temptation to the souls of men, and into a snare for the feet of the foolish.
12. For the beginning of fornication is the search for idols, and from their invention comes corruption of life.