Trouvé 359 Résultats pour: false gods
Since they are made of wood and overlaid with gold and silver, it will afterward be known that they are false. (Baruch 6, 50)
It will be manifest to all the nations and kings that they are not gods but the work of men's hands, and that there is no work of God in them. (Baruch 6, 51)
Who then can fail to know that they are not gods? (Baruch 6, 52)
When fire breaks out in a temple of wooden gods overlaid with gold or silver, their priests will flee and escape, but the gods will be burnt in two like beams. (Baruch 6, 55)
Besides, they can offer no resistance to a king or any enemies. Why then must any one admit or think that they are gods? (Baruch 6, 56)
Gods made of wood and overlaid with silver and gold are not able to save themselves from thieves and robbers. (Baruch 6, 57)
So it is better to be a king who shows his courage, or a household utensil that serves its owner's need, than to be these false gods; better even the door of a house that protects its contents, than these false gods; better also a wooden pillar in a palace, than these false gods. (Baruch 6, 59)
Therefore one must not think that they are gods nor call them gods, for they are not able either to decide a case or to do good to men. (Baruch 6, 64)
Since you know then that they are not gods, do not fear them. (Baruch 6, 65)
So we have no evidence whatever that they are gods; therefore do not fear them. (Baruch 6, 69)
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber bed, that guards nothing, so are their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver. (Baruch 6, 70)
In the same way, their gods of wood, overlaid with gold and silver, and like a thorn bush in a garden, on which every bird sits; or like a dead body cast out in the darkness. (Baruch 6, 71)
