Talált 11647 Eredmények: No
For health he appeals to a thing that is weak; for life he prays to a thing that is dead; for aid he entreats a thing that is utterly inexperienced; for a prosperous journey, a thing that cannot take a step; (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 18)
for money-making and work and success with his hands he asks strength of a thing whose hands have no strength. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 19)
It is thy will that works of thy wisdom should not be without effect; therefore men trust their lives even to the smallest piece of wood, and passing through the billows on a raft they come safely to land. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
for neither have they existed from the beginning nor will they exist for ever. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 13)
For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement, made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him; and he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being, and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 15)
When men could not honor monarchs in their presence, since they lived at a distance, they imagined their appearance far away, and made a visible image of the king whom they honored, so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)
Then the ambition of the craftsman impelled even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 18)
and the multitude, attracted by the charm of his work, now regarded as an object of worship the one whom shortly before they had honored as a man. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 20)
And this became a hidden trap for mankind, because men, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority, bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 21)
Afterward it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but they live in great strife due to ignorance, and they call such great evils peace. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 22)
they no longer keep either their lives or their marriages pure, but they either treacherously kill one another, or grieve one another by adultery, (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 24)
For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning and cause and end of every evil. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 27)
