44. All that is done for these gods is a fraud; how then can it be thought or claimed that they are gods?
45. They are produced by woodworkers and goldsmiths; they are nothing other than what these artisans wish them to be.
46. Even those who produce them are not long-lived;
47. how then can the things they have produced be gods? They have left frauds and disgrace to their successors.
48. For when war or disaster comes upon them, the priests deliberate among themselves where they can hide with them.