Read continuously That There is No Idol in the World · §1 · Gregory Thaumaturgus
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Honor paid to the God who truly is is somehow also an honor of the one who honors; but honor paid to the god who is not is, by contrast, a dishonor of the very one who honors.
Greek ἡ μὲν εἰς θεὸν τὸν ὄντως ὄντα τιμὴ πάντως που καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ τιμῶντός ἐστι τιμή, ἡ δὲ εἰς τὸν οὐκ ὄντα θεὸν τιμὴ ἐξ ἐναντίας αὐτοῦ τοῦ τιμῶντός ἐστιν ἀτιμία.
About this text These Greek scraps belong to the first three centuries of the church (or the early fourth, disclosed in the work note when later).
Gregory Thaumaturgus, short Greek scrap on true honor versus honor of what is not God.
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