Wisdom 14:19DRA
Bibbia Cattolica · DRA · Versetto 19 di 31
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"For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner."
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17And those whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they brought their resemblance from afar, and made an express image of the king whom they had a mind to honour: that by this their diligence, they might honour as present, him that was absent.
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.