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Suppose a father, overwhelmed by grief for a child so swiftly taken from him, has an image made of him. From that time on a dead creature will be honored as a god, because the father handed on to his dependents secret rites and celebrations. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 15)
Time will consolidate this unholy practice and eventually it will be observed by law. It has also happened that sculptured images were venerated by order of sovereigns. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 16)
The ambition of the artist helped the veneration grow among those who did not even know the sovereign. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 18)
He has no thought of dying soon, no thought of the short duration of life. None at all. He competes with those who work on silver and gold and, like the smith, he feels proud to make a counterfeit of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 9)
He looks on life as a game and its duration a market full of bargains, for as he says, "a man must make the most of life whether by fair means or foul." (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 12)
The hope of the ungrateful will melt like winter frost and flow away like water that is not being used. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 29)
In contrast to this darkness, you gave your holy people a pillar of fire as a guide in their unmapped journey, as a mild sun during their glorious migration. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 3)
A blameless man hastened to their defense. Using the weapons of his sacred office - prayer and atonement incense - he confronted the divine Wrath, putting an end to their affliction, and was thus recognized as your servant. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 21)
He vanquished your Wrath, but not by physical strength or by the force of arms. He won over the Punisher by reminding him of the sworn promises and covenants made with our fathers. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 22)
The dead were already piled up, one on top of the other, when he intervened, beating back Wrath and cutting it off from the living. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 23)
The Destroyer, afraid of these, recoiled; a mere taste of Wrath had been sufficient. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 25)
worse still, the Egyptians who had welcomed them with celebrations and treated them as equals, but later made them suffer cruelly. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 16)
