Talált 13244 Eredmények: Úr
But wretched are they, with their hopes set on dead things, who have given the title of gods to human artefacts, gold or silver, skilfully worked, figures of animals, or useless stone, carved by some hand long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
There is still a good-for-nothing bit left over, a gnarled and knotted billet: he takes it and whittles it with the concentration of his leisure hours, he shapes it with the skill of experience, he gives it a human shape (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 13)
or perhaps he makes it into some vile animal, smears it with ochre, paints its surface red, coats over all its blemishes. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 14)
Thus he makes sure that it will not fall down -- being well aware that it cannot help itself, since it is only an image, and needs to be helped. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 16)
for life, he pleads with what is dead, for help, he goes begging to total inexperience, for a journey, what cannot even use its feet, (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 18)
for profit, an undertaking, and success in pursuing his craft, he asks skill from something whose hands have no skill whatever. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 19)
but your providence, Father, is what steers it, you having opened a pathway even through the sea, and a safe way over the waves, (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 3)
It is not your will that the works of your Wisdom should be sterile, so people entrust their lives to the smallest piece of wood, cross the waves on a raft, yet are kept safe and sound. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
Why, in the beginning, when the proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft and, steered by your hand, preserved the seed of a new generation for the ages to come. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 6)
but accursed the man-made idol, yes, it and its maker, he for having made it, and it because, though perishable, it has been called god. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 8)
A father afflicted by untimely mourning has an image made of his child so soon carried off, and now pays divine honours to what yesterday was only a corpse, handing on mysteries and ceremonies to his people; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 15)
Rulers were the ones who ordered that statues should be worshipped: people who could not honour them in person, because they lived too far away, would have a portrait made of their distant countenance, to have an image that they could see of the king whom they honoured; meaning, by such zeal, to flatter the absent as if he were present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)
