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This was the worst error of all their erring, that they worshipped the meanest of beasts as gods; silly children had been no more credulous. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 24)
of those play-time penalties if they took no heed, then at last they should feel how a God can punish. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 26)
Humiliated they well might be at those sufferings of theirs, the very gods they worshipped the instruments of their distress; a sight enough to convince them that he was the true God, whom all this while they had rejected! But no, they must needs bring upon themselves the full rigours of justice. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 27)
What folly it argues in man’s nature, this ignorance of God! So much good seen, and he, who is existent Good,✻ not known! Should they not learn to recognise the Artificer by the contemplation of his works? (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 1)
Instead, they have pointed us to fire, or wind, or to the nimble air, wheeling stars, or tempestuous waves, or sun and moon, and made gods of them, to rule the world! (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 2)
Yet, if we find fault with men like these, their fault is little by comparison; err they may, but their desire is to find God, and it is in that search they err. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 6)
But there are men more wretched yet, men who repose all their confidence in a world of shadows. They give the name of god to what is made by human art, gold and silver that human workmanship has turned into the likeness of living things, blocks of senseless stone that human hands have carved, long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
Sinner and sin, God hates both; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 9)
Thus it is that a time of reckoning will come for these idols the Gentiles make; part of God’s creation though they be, he detests them, so have they entangled men’s souls, and laid a trap for fools. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 11)
till at last the vulgar, carried away by so much grace of art, would account him a god whom yesterday they reverenced as mortal man. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 20)
So, unawares, the world was caught in the ambush; under the stress, now of bereavement, now of royal policy, men imparted to stocks and stones the incommunicable name of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 21)
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)
