Commodian, Instructions indig
The Lord of heaven, earth, and sea commands in the law: "Do not worship empty gods made by your hands from wood or gold; my indignation will destroy the nations because of these things." Before Moses, the nation was crude, living without law and not knowing God; they prayed to dying gods and made empty idols in their likeness. The Lord brought the Jews out of Egypt, then imposed the law, and the Almighty commanded these things: to serve him alone, not them. The law also teaches the resurrection and the hope to live again in a blessed age, if empty idols are abandoned and not worshiped.
Latin
In lege praecepit Dominus coeli terrae marisque: Nolite, inquit, adorare deos inanes, De manibus vestris factos ex ligno vel auro; Indignatio mea nevos disperdat ob ista. Gens ante Mosen rudis, sine lege morata, Nesciensque Deum, morientes deos orabant, Ad quorum effigies faciebant idola vana. Translatis Judaeis Dominus de terra Aegypti, Imposuit legem postmodum, et ista praecepit Omnipotens, sibi soli deservire, non illis. De resurrectione quoque docetur in ipsa, Et spe, fortunatum rursum in aevo vivendi, Idola si vana relinqantur, neque colantur.