Wisdom of Solomon 14:19

Wisdom of Solomon 14:19 Context

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. ²¹And this was an occasion to deceiue the world: for men seruing either calamitie or tyrannie, did ascribe vnto stones, and stockes, the incommunicable Name.

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