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!o60OF THE WORSHIP OF IMAGES.graven image . . . thou shalt not bow down thyselfunto them and serve them."" Rome herself has confessed thatthese two commands,—that from thefrom Sinai,—areSeven Hills and thateternally irreconcileable, by blotting fromthe Decalogue the second precept of the law.* Alas ! willthis avail her aught so long as that precept stands unrepealedin the law of God i May God have mercy upon herpoor benighted people, whom she leads blindfold into idolatry; and may He remember this extenuation of their guiltwhen he arises to execute judgment upon those who, knowingthat they who do such thingsonly do them, but teach others to do the sameare worthy of death, not* In the ordinary catechisms used by the Eoman Catholics of thiscountry, the second commandment is expunged from the Decalogue, andthe tenth is split into two, to preserve the number of ten.