20. And the masses, drawn by the charm of the workmanship,soon took as an object of worship the one who shortly before was honored as a human being.
21. And this became a snare for the world,that people enslaved to either grief or tyrannyconferred the incommunicable Name on stones and wood.
22. Then it was not enough for them to err in their knowledge of God;but even though they live in a great war resulting from ignorance,they call such evils peace.
23. For while they practice either child sacrifices or occult mysteries,or frenzied carousing in exotic rites,