[metmom]

[Note 17], are all of pagan origin , and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.."

And the effect is never that those things are sanctified but rather they lead away into idolatry, as happened time and again in Israel.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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[daniel1212]

And the effect is never that those things are sanctified but rather they lead away into idolatry, as happened time and again in Israel.

The tendency of man is to make even the instruments of His grace into objects of devotion which only belongs to God.

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. (2 Kings 18:4)