Wisdom of Solomon 14:18

Wisdom of Solomon 14:18 Context

¹⁶Thus in processe of time an vngodly custome growen strong, was kept as a law, and grauen images were worshipped by the commandements of kings, ¹⁷Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt farre off, they tooke the counterfeit of his visage from farre, and made an expresse image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardnes, they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present. ¹⁸Also the singular diligence of the artificer did helpe to set forward the ignorant to more superstition. ¹⁹For he peraduenture willing to please one in authoritie, forced all his skill to make the resemblance of the best fashion. ²⁰And so the multitude allured by the grace of the worke, tooke him now for a god, which a litle before was but honoured as a man.

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