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Patristic A.D. 254 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on Exod 20:5 (AGAINST CELSUS 5.6)

Origen, on Exod 20:5

Origen · c. A.D. 184–253
Exod 20:5 · Douay-Rheims
“Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:”
On this verse:
“It is obvious that the Jews follow the law where God is represented as saying, "You shall have none other gods but me; you shall not make for yourself an idol nor any likeness of anything in the heaven above and in the earth beneath and in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor worship them." And they worship none other than the supreme God who made heaven and everything else. It is clear then that since those who live according to the law reverence him who made the heavens, they do not reverence the heavens together with God. Furthermore, none of those who serve the Mosaic law worship the angels in heaven. And in the same way that they do not worship the sun, moon and stars, "the world of heaven," they avoid worshiping heaven and the angels in it.”

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