Gods and devils of mankind : the whole dark picture strikingly contrasted with the beauty and purity of revealed religion / by Frank S. Dobbins ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams (1897)
Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton), 1855-1916 · [S.l.] · leaf 53
to theirideas of the unseen gods.Other materials wereused and, as might berequired by the materi-als, other shapes wereof necessity given. Atfirst, it would seem, thatonly representations ofanimals were attempted,then, as in the teraphim,the head of man wasattached to various ani-mal forms, as also… … WHENCE CAME THE MANY GODS AND IDOLS? 59 become established, and the worship of one God hadbeen generally forgotten. Not very much more thanone hundred and fifty years elapsed between the deathof Noah and thebirth of Jacob, sothat in all prob-ability idols hadnot long been inuse when this in-cident…
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