Wisdom 14:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹³for they did not exist from the beginning,
nor will they last for ever.
¹⁴For through human vanity they entered the world,
and therefore their speedy end has been planned.

¹⁵For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement,
made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him;
he now honoured as a god what was once a dead human being,
and handed on to his dependants secret rites and initiations.

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