Wisdom of Solomon 13:10
“They therefore come to the gods, not so much for the sake of religion, which can have no place in things ill-prepared and perishable, as to feast their eyes on gold, to gaze at the polish of refined marble or ivory, to handle with greedy contemplation the garments distinguished by little stones and colors, or cups ado…”
10But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who call them gods, which are the works of men’s hands, gold and silver, to shew art in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the work of an ancient hand.
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8Howbeit neither are they to be pardoned.
9For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?
— Wisdom of Solomon 13:10 —
11Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skilfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely, and made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man’s life;
12And after spending the refuse of his work to dress his meat, hath filled himself;