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But a castoff piece from among them, useful for nothing, a stick crooked and full of knots, he takes and carves with care in his leisure, and shapes it with skill gained in idleness; he forms it like the image of a man, (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 13)
So he takes thought for it, that it may not fall, because he knows that it cannot help itself, for it is only an image and has need of help. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 16)
When he prays about possessions and his marriage and children, he is not ashamed to address a lifeless thing. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 17)
Again, one preparing to sail and about to voyage over raging waves calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the ship which carries him. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 1)
For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement, made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him; and he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being, and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 15)
Then the ungodly custom, grown strong with time, was kept as a law, and at the command of monarchs graven images were worshiped. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 16)
When men could not honor monarchs in their presence, since they lived at a distance, they imagined their appearance far away, and made a visible image of the king whom they honored, so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)
And this became a hidden trap for mankind, because men, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority, bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 21)
they no longer keep either their lives or their marriages pure, but they either treacherously kill one another, or grieve one another by adultery, (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 24)
confusion over what is good, forgetfulness of favors, pollution of souls, sex perversion, disorder in marriage, adultery, and debauchery. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 26)
whose appearance arouses yearning in fools, so that they desire the lifeless form of a dead image. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 5)
For this man, more than all others, knows that he sins when he makes from earthy matter fragile vessels and graven images. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 13)
