II.—God’s Indignation.

In the law, the Lord of heaven, and earth, and sea has commanded, saying, Worship not vain gods made by your own hands out of wood or gold, lest my wrath destroy you for such things.  The people before Moses, unskilled, abiding without law, and ignorant of God, prayed to gods that perished, after the likenesses of which they fashioned vain idols.  The Lord having brought the Jews out of the land of Egypt, subsequently imposed on them a law; and the Omnipotent enjoined these things, that they should serve Him alone, and not those idols.  Moreover, in that law is taught concerning the resurrection, and the hope of living in happiness again in the world, if vain idols be forsaken and not worshipped.

II.---INDIGNATIO DEI.

0203A In lege praecepit Dominus coeli terrae marisque: Nolite, inquit, adorare deos inanes, De manibus vestris factos ex ligno vel auro; Indignatio mea nevos disperdat ob ista. Gens ante Mosen rudis, sine lege morata, Nesciensque Deum, morientes deos orabant, Ad quorum effigies faciebant idola vana. Translatis Judaeis Dominus de terra Aegypti, Imposuit legem postmodum, et ista praecepit Omnipotens, sibi soli deservire, non illis. De resurrectione quoque docetur in ipsa, Et spe, fortunatum rursum in aevo vivendi, Idola si vana relinqantur, neque colantur.