Deus enim ligneus, rogi fortasse vel infelicis stipitis portio, suspenditur, caeditur, dolatur, runcinatur; et deus aereus vel argenteus de immundo vasculo, ut saepius factum Aegyptio regi, conflatur, tunditur malleis et incudibus figuratur; et lapideus deus caeditur, scalpitur et ab impurato homine levigatur, nec sentit suae nativitatis iniuriam, ita ut nec postea de vestra veneratione culturam.
A god of wood, a fragment perhaps of a funeral pile or a gallows-tree, is hung up, sawn, chiselled and planed; your god of bronze or silver, made as it often was from some dirty vessel for an Egyptian king, is melted down, hammered with mallets, and shaped on anvils; your god of stone is hewn, carved and polished by some lewd fellow, and is no more aware of the stains upon his birth than he is afterwards of the homage of your worship.
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