Verse 23
23. Changed What unspeakable fools these self-conceited wise ones were is here unfolded. The glory of the incorruptible God they transformed into the basest shapes of man, birds, quadrupeds, and reptiles.
Man In Athens the most exquisite art was applied in shaping statues of human form into representatives of gods.
Birds In Egypt the ibis.
Four-footed beasts Dogs, cats, wolves, oxen, and crocodiles.
Creeping things The serpent worship is one of the most marvellous and most widely diffused of idolatries. Wherever these apostates from God discerned or imagined the nature-power manifesting itself peculiarly, as in some animals, there they bestowed their strange and degrading worship. At first it was perhaps the nature power conceived to inhere in the animal which they worshipped, but, sooner or later, not only the animal, but even the lifeless image, was worshipped as the very god.
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