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Wisdom 14:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Wisdom 14:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
16 Then the ungodly custom, grown strong with time, was kept as a law,
and at the command of monarchs carved images were worshiped.
17 When people could not honor monarchs[a] in their presence, since they lived at a distance,
they imagined their appearance far away,
and made a visible image of the king whom they honored,
so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present.
18 Then the ambition of the artisan impelled
even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 14:17 Gk them
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
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