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Yet these men are little to be blamed, for perhaps they go astray while seeking God and desiring to find him. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 6)
But miserable, with their hopes set on dead things, are the men who give the name "gods" to the works of men's hands, gold and silver fashioned with skill, and likenesses of animals, or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
It is thy will that works of thy wisdom should not be without effect; therefore men trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
Therefore there will be a visitation also upon the heathen idols, because, though part of what God created, they became an abomination, and became traps for the souls of men and a snare to the feet of the foolish. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 11)
For through the vanity of men they entered the world, and therefore their speedy end has been planned. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 14)
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)
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)
For it is not the power of the things by which men swear, but the just penalty for those who sin, that always pursues the transgression of the unrighteous. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 31)
Therefore those men were deservedly punished through such creatures, and were tormented by a multitude of animals. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 1)
Instead of this punishment thou didst show kindness to thy people, and thou didst prepare quails to eat, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of appetite; (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 2)
in order that those men, when they desired food, might lose the least remnant of appetite because of the odious creatures sent to them, while thy people, after suffering want a short time, might partake of delicacies. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 3)
