creatures instead of to Him.45 Yes, even the Jews themselves, who were called God’s own people, practiced their own idolatry under His name by relying on works and their own righteousness. The situation is still the same today.46 Everyone paints a god for himself according to his own thoughts, with innumerable false kinds of worship and specious holiness—not to mention all the other manifest, abominable blasphemy of God of which the world is full. Therefore, it was indeed necessary to pray that the