Wisdom 14:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.

²⁰ 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.

²¹ And 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.