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so that men would die of fear at their very aspect, without waiting for proof of their power to do harm. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 20)
No moment passes but thou, if thou wilt, canst shew thyself supreme; that arm has power there is no withstanding; (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 22)
Yet they, too, were men, and thou wouldst deal gently with them; thou wouldst send hornets as the vanguard of thy invading host, to wear them down gradually.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 8)
It is for our instruction, then, that thou usest such exquisite care in the punishing of our enemies;✻ judge we, let us imitate thy clemency, abide we judgement, let us ever hope for pardon. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 22)
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)
Or was it power, and power’s exercise, that awoke their wonderment? Why then, how many times greater must he be, who contrived it! (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 4)
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)
if their thoughts could reach far enough to form a judgement about the world around them, how is it they found, on the way, no trace of him who is Master of it? (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 9)
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)
But one more piece of refuse wood is left, that is fit for nothing; so crooked is it and so gnarled. See him, in an idle moment, pick it up and spend his leisure carving it! A master craftsman this; ere long it has taken shape, made into a man’s likeness; (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 13)
but it is thy fatherly Providence that brings her safe to port; thou hast made the sea into a high road men may travel by without harm, (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 3)
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)
