Non quod idolum sit aliquid, ut apostolus ait, sed quoniam quae faciunt daemoniis faciunt consistentibus scilicet in consecrationibus idolorum, sive mortuorum sive, ut putant, deorum.
Not that an idol is anything, says the apostle,  but what they do, they do in honour of demons,c who plant themselves in the consecrated images of'whatever they are, dead men or, as they think, gods.
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