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to order the world by a law of right living and of just dealing, and give true award in the honest purpose of his heart. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 3)
What God’s purpose is, how should man discover, how should his mind master the secret of the divine will? (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 13)
those five cities whose shame is yet unforgotten, while smoke issues from the barren soil, and never tree bears seasonable fruit, and the pillar of salt stands monument to an unbelieving soul. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 7)
But those who cherish her, Wisdom brings safely out of all their striving. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 9)
Thou who once, into defiling blood, hadst troubled the sources of a living stream, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 7)
But no, their sentence should be executed by degrees, giving them opportunity to repent; though indeed thou knewest well that theirs was a worthless breed, of a malice so ingrained, that they would turn aside from their ill devices never; (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 10)
God there is none save thou, that hast a whole world for thy province; and shall thy justice abide our question? (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 13)
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)
Perhaps the beauty of such things bewitched them into mistaking it for divinity? Ay, but what of him who is Master of them all; what excellence must be his, the Author of all beauty, that could make them! (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 3)
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 yonder idol is accursed, no less than the man who made it; he for his wicked design, and the lifeless thing for the legend of divinity that was attached to it. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 8)
