Working out these truths carefully and having made them plain he showed that even if a man should think of doing evil - to say nothing of actually effecting it - he would not escape detection, for he made it clear that the power of God pervaded the whole of the law.
Beginning from this starting point he went on to show that all mankind except ourselves believe in the existence of many gods, though they themselves are much more powerful than the beings whom they vainly worship.
For when they have made statues of stone and wood, they say that they are the images of those who have invented something useful for life and they worship them, though they have clear proof that they possess no feeling.