Talált 2352 Eredmények: Art
What Wisdom is and how she was born, I shall now explain; I shall hide no mysteries from you, but shall follow her steps from the outset of her origin, setting out what we know of her in full light, without departing from the truth. (Wisdom of Solomon 6, 22)
I too am mortal like everyone else, a descendant of the first man formed from the earth. I was modelled in flesh inside a mother's womb, (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 1)
but, realising that I could never possess Wisdom unless God gave her to me, -a sign of intelligence in itself, to know in whose gift she lay -- I prayed to the Lord and entreated him, and with all my heart I said: (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 21)
It is hard enough for us to work out what is on earth, laborious to know what lies within our reach; who, then, can discover what is in the heavens? (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 16)
Thus have the paths of those on earth been straightened and people have been taught what pleases you, and have been saved, by Wisdom.' (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 18)
When because of him the earth was drowned, it was Wisdom again who saved it, piloting the upright man on valueless timber. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 4)
Yes, naturally stupid are all who are unaware of God, and who, from good things seen, have not been able to discover Him-who-is, or, by studying the works, have not recognised the Artificer. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 1)
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)
Even people who did not know him were stimulated into spreading his cult by the artist's enthusiasm; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 18)
Take a potter, now, laboriously working the soft earth, shaping each object for us to use. Out of the self-same clay, he models vessels intended for a noble use and those for a contrary purpose, all alike: but which of these two uses each will have is for the potter himself to decide. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
Then -- ill -- spent effort!-from the same clay he models a futile god, although so recently made out of earth himself and shortly to return to what he was taken from, when asked to give back the soul that has been lent to him. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
Ashes, his heart; more vile than earth, his hope; more wretched than clay, his life! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
