Idolater

Definitions

One who worships idols; (historical) a pagan.

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“[T]he state of idolaters is two ways miserable: first, in that which they worship⟳ they find⟳ no succour; and secondly, at his hands, whom they ought to serve⟳, there is no other thing to be looked for but the effects of most just displeasure, the withdrawing of grace, dereliction in this world, and in the world to come⟳ confusion.”

“I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have⟳ written unto you not to keep⟳ company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat⟳. For what have⟳ I to do to judge⟳ them also that are without? do not ye judge⟳ them that are within?”

“You who can smash the idols, do so with a good courage; but do not be too fierce with the idolaters,—they worship⟳ the best thing they know⟳.”

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