(as it is written: I have made you a father of many nations,) in the sight of him in whom he believed, even God, who makes the dead alive, and calls those things which are not, as though they were.

But, then, because you knew not God, you were enslaved to those who, by nature, are not gods:

With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.