Wisdom 14:20DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 20 of 31
"And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the work, took him now for a god that a little before was but honoured as a man."
In context
18And to worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of the artificer helped to set forward the ignorant.
19For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.
20And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the work, took him now for a god that a little before was but honoured as a man.
21And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood.
22And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.