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Here was some father, bowed with sorrow before his time, his child untimely lost; the likeness of those features once made, to mortal man (that was dead besides) he would pay divine honours, and with that, rites of initiation must become the tradition of his clan. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 15)
and his subjects, living far away, so that they could not do obeisance to him in person, would have his present image set up in their view, eager to pay his absent royalty their adulation. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)
each of these sought to please his master by improving the portrait, with the utmost abuse of his skill, (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 19)
Nor were they content with these false notions of God’s nature; living in a world besieged by doubt, they misnamed its innumerable disorders a state of peace. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 22)
Their ecstasies are but raving, their prophecies are but lies; ill live their worshippers, and lightly forswear themselves. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 28)
No thought for the God that was his own fashioner, quickened him with the pulse of energy, breathed into him a living spirit! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 11)
Existence, for him, only a toy to be played with; our life here, only a market-place, where a man must needs get his living by fair means or foul! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 12)
Here the flame would burn low, to spare those creatures a scorching, that were thy emissaries against the godless; doubt there should be none, for any who saw it, but divine justice was at his heels. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 18)
In secret they offered their sacrifice, children of a nobler race, all set apart; with one accord they ratified the divine covenant, which bound them to share the same blessings and the same perils; singing for prelude their ancestral hymns of praise. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 9)
unnumbered everywhere the slain, nor might the living suffice to bury them; all in one moment, the flower of their race had perished. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 12)
Already the corpses were piled thick one on another; but he kept vengeance at bay, standing in between to breach the path between dead and living. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 23)
then fire, in its turn, could not waste the frail flesh of living creatures that traversed it, nor melt that heavenly food that melted easily as ice. No means wouldst thou neglect, Lord, to magnify thy people and win them renown; never wouldst thou leave them unregarded, but always and everywhere camest to their side.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 20)
