John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 8:5

Verſe 5. That are called gods] Heſiod reckons up thirty thouſand of them that were in his time. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. What an army may we think there were of them in after-ages?

As there be gods many] The Serpents Grammar firſt taught, Deum pluralitèr declinare, Ye ſhall be as gods, Gen. 3. ſaith Damianus.

And Lords many] Demy-gods, Heroes whoſe images were worſhipped. Ninus was the firſt that made an Image for his Father Belus, and all that came to ſee it were pardoned for all their offences: whence in time that Image came to be worſhipped. But they did a very ill office that firſt brought in Images, ſaith Varro (as Calvin citeth his words) for they increaſed errour, and took away fear. And Plutarch ſaith, It is ſacriledge to worſhip by images.