12. For the devising of idols was the beginning of fornication, And the invention of them the corruption of life:
13. For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever;
14. For by the vaingloriousness of men they entered into the world, And therefore was a speedy end devised for them.
15. For a father worn with untimely grief, Making an image of the child quickly taken away, Now honored him as a god which was then a dead man, And delivered to those that were under him mysteries and solemn rites.
16. Afterward the ungodly custom, in process of time grown strong, was kept as a law, And by the commandments of princes the graven images received worship.