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So careful art thou that the gifts thy wisdom affords us should not go unused; man ventures his life on a few planks, and the frail barque gives him safe conduct across the waves. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
Thus it is that a time of reckoning will come for these idols the Gentiles make; part of God’s creation though they be, he detests them, so have they entangled men’s souls, and laid a trap for fools. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 11)
For indeed they were no part of man’s life from the first, nor shall be at the last; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 13)
till at last the vulgar, carried away by so much grace of art, would account him a god whom yesterday they reverenced as mortal man. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 20)
So, unawares, the world was caught in the ambush; under the stress, now of bereavement, now of royal policy, men imparted to stocks and stones the incommunicable name of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 21)
For us, thou art God; thou, beneficent and truthful, thou, always patient and merciful towards the world thou governest. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 1)
To know thee as thou art, is the soul’s full health; to have proof of thy power, is the root whence springs immortality. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 3)
Not for us to be led astray by foolish tales of man’s imagining, by the sculptor’s barren art, as he picks out some image with motley colours, (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 4)
Despise we not the potter’s toil, that works the pliant earth between his fingers, and makes a cup here, a dish there for our use. Serve they noble ends or base, all alike come from the same clay, and what employment each of them shall find, it is the potter’s right to determine. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
But very ill is that toil bestowed, when he uses the same clay to fashion some god that is no god. Bethink thee, potter, that it is but a little while since thou thyself wast fashioned out of the same earth, and ere long, when the lease of thy soul falls due, to that earth thou shalt return. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
O heart of dust, O ambition worthless as the sand, life than his own clay more despicable! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
Such a man, as no other, sins with his eyes open; from the same earthenware he will make you fragile pot or carved effigy as you will. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 13)
