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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Behold, you are nothing (from nothing): and your work is from something that does not exist: an abomination is he who chooses you. LXX: they have chosen you from the land of abominations. Or this may be said, that mute images of humans and insensible things are neither able to do good nor evil, nor to know the past nor the future, because they are made out of nothing and out of that which does not exist, and not they themselves, but rather the one who worships them, is deserving of abomination. …
Thomas Aquinas
Third, he deduces their defect as to material cause: behold, you, idols, are of nothing, created out of matter; as to formal cause, your work, that is, the artificial form, which fashioned in you a divinity, which does not exist; and as to efficient cause: an abomination, that is, abominable. Or: you, artists, your work, namely, the idols, he that has chosen you, worshippers: we know that an idol is nothing (1 Cor 8:4); every artist is confounded in his graven idol (Jer 10:14).
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