Given by: the inspired teacher, in Solomon's voice, tracing the roots and fruits of idolatry. Given to: God's people amid an idol-worshipping world. This is a declared truth about the moral consequence of false worship.

Written for Jews surrounded by Hellenistic idol-cults, the passage names idolatry not merely as a mistaken belief but as a moral catastrophe that spreads through a life and a society, comparing spiritual infidelity to fornication.

For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and the invention of them is the corruption of life.

The devising of idols is where unfaithfulness begins, and their invention works the corruption of a whole life.

Wisdom of Solomon 14:12

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Loves Neighbor

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