Wisdom 14:19-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 For he, perhaps in his determination to please the ruler,
labored over the likeness[a] to the best of his skill;(A)
20 And the masses, drawn by the charm of the workmanship,
soon took as an object of worship the one who shortly before was honored as a human being.(B)
21 And this became a snare for the world,
that people enslaved to either grief or tyranny
conferred the incommunicable Name on stones and wood.
Footnotes
- 14:19 Likeness: he made this more flattering than the reality.
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