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* '''idolatry''' | * '''idolatry''' | ||
** putting anything else above God | ** putting anything else above God | ||
** from "idol" = for "false god" | ** Book of Wisdom, 13:10: | ||
But wretched are they, and in dead things are their hopes, | |||
who termed gods things made by human hands; | |||
* from "idol" = for "false god" | |||
* idol contains also sense of an image | |||
** has origin in PIE '''oid-''' for "seeming, like, like that of..." | |||
** and Greek ''-oeidēs'' from ''eidos'' "form," ''idein'' "to see," and ''eidenai'' "to know, to see" | |||
*** from PIE '''*weid-''' "to see" | |||
* idolatry means to put anything above god, be it an idol, other god, Satan, pride, sin, money, etc. | |||
** see CC 2113: | |||
*** "Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God." | |||
* '''IHS''' | * '''IHS''' | ||
** the first three letters of the Greek word for Jesus, '''ΙΗΣΟΥΣ''' | ** the first three letters of the Greek word for Jesus, '''ΙΗΣΟΥΣ''' |