Wisdom 14:13-15

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ for neither have they existed from the beginning
nor will they exist for ever.
¹⁴ For through the vanity of men they entered the world,
and therefore their speedy end has been planned.
¹⁵ For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement,
made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him;
and he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being,
and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations.