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Wisdom of Solomon 14:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Wisdom of Solomon 14:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated 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.(A)
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.(B)
18 Then the ambition of the artisan impelled
even those who did not know the king[b] to intensify their worship.
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