45 Yet they have been made by the workmen and the goldsmiths. They will be nothing else but what the priests want them to be.
46 For the artisans themselves, who make them, do not exist for a long time. So then, can these things, which have been made by them, be gods?
47 Yet they have bequeathed falsehoods and disgrace after this to the future.
48 For when they are overcome by battle or evil, the priests consider among themselves where they may hide themselves with them.
49 Therefore, why would they be perceived to be gods, who can neither free themselves from war, nor rescue themselves from evils?
50 For, in as much as they are only wood, inlaid with gold and silver, so let it be known henceforth, by all nations and kings, that they are false; because it has been revealed that they are not gods, but the work of men's hands, and there is no work of God in them.
51 For this reason, then, it has been accepted that they are not gods, but are works of the hands of men, and no work of God is in them.