Löydetty 13244 Tulokset: Úr

• Whatever is sacrificed to them, the priests re-sell and pocket the profit; while their wives salt down part of it, but give nothing to the poor or to the helpless. As to the sacrifices themselves, why, women during their periods and women in childbed are not afraid to touch them! (Baruch 6, 27)

• equally incapable of distributing wealth or money. If anyone fails to honour a vow he has made to them, they cannot call him to account. (Baruch 6, 34)

• 'The Chaldaeans themselves do them no honour; if they find someone who is dumb and cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him for the gift of speech, as though he could perceive it! (Baruch 6, 40)

• Women with strings round their waists sit in the streets, burning bran like incense; (Baruch 6, 42)

• when one of these has been picked up by a passer-by and been to bed with him, she then gloats over her neighbour for not having been thought as worthy as herself and for not having had her string broken. (Baruch 6, 43)

• Whatever is done for them is spurious. So how can anyone think or say that they are gods? (Baruch 6, 44)

• Their legacy to their descendants is nothing but delusion and dishonour. (Baruch 6, 47)

• And since they are only made of wood overlaid with gold or silver, it will later become apparent that they are spurious; it will be obvious to everyone, to nations as to kings, that they are not gods but the work of human hands, and that there is no divine activity in them. (Baruch 6, 50)

• If fire falls on the temple of these wooden gods overlaid with gold or silver, their priests fly to safety while they for their part stay there like beams, to be burnt. (Baruch 6, 54)

• 'For they can neither curse nor bless kings, (Baruch 6, 65)

• From the purple and linen rotting on their backs you can tell that they are not gods; and in the end, eaten away, they will be the dishonour of the country. (Baruch 6, 71)

• Better, then, someone upright who has no idols; dishonour will never come near him.' (Baruch 6, 72)