Douay Rheims Original ↷
Wisdom of Solomon 14 📜 📕 ↷
Start of Idolatry
1 AGAIN an other thinking to sail, and beginning to make a journey through the fierce waves, invocateth wood more frail than the wood that carrieth him.📜💬📚
2 For covetousness of getting invented it, and the craftsman by his wisdom framed it.📜💬📚
3 But thy providence, o Father, doth govern: because thou hast given a way even in the sea, and among the waves a most sure path,📜💬📚
4 shewing that thou art able to save out of all things, yea if a man go to the sea without art.📜💬📚
5 But that thy works might not be void of wisdom: for this cause also men commit their lives even to a little wood, and passing over the sea are delivered by ship.📜💬📚
Death of Giants
6 But from the beginning also when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world flying to a ship, rendered to the world seed of nativity, which was governed by thy hand.📜💬📚
7 For blessed is the wood, by the which justice is made.📜💬📚
8 But the idol that is made by hands, cursed is both it, and he that made it: because he in deed wrought it: and the same being frail, was called God.📜💬📚
9 But to God the impious and his impiety are odious alike.📜💬📚
10 For that which is made, with him that made it, shall suffer torments.📜💬📚
11 For this cause also in the idol of the nations there shall be no respect: because the creatures of God were made to hatred, and for tentation to the souls of men, and for a snare to the feet of the unwise.📜💬📚
Idolatry Causes Sexual Immorality
12 For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and the inventing of them is the corruption of life.📜💬📚
13 For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.📜💬📚
14 For this vanity of men came into the world: and therefore there is found a short end of them.📜💬📚
15 For the father being sorrowful with bitter mourning, made unto himself the image of his son quickly taken away: and him, that then was a dead man, now he began to worship as God, and appointed holy things and sacrifices among his servants.📜💬📚
16 Afterward by succession of time, the wicked custom prevailing, this error was kept as a law, and things graven were worshipped by the commandment of Tyrants.📜💬📚
17 And those, whom openly men could not honour, for that they were far off, their figure being brought from a far, they made an evident image of the king, whom they would honour: that by their carefulness they might honour as present, him that was absent.📜💬📚
18 And to the worshipping of these the excellent diligence also of the artificer, holp them forward, that were ignorant.📜💬📚
19 For he willing to please him that entertained him, laboured by his art to fashion the similitude in better sort.📜💬📚
20 And the multitude of men carried away by the beauty of the work, him that a little before had been honoured as a man, now they esteemed for a God.📜💬📚
21 And this was the deceiving of man's life: because men serving either affection, or kings, gave the name that is not communicable, to stones and wood.📜💬📚
22 And it was not sufficient that they erred about the knowledge of God, but also living in a great battle of ignorance, so many and so great evils they call peace.📜💬📚
Child Sacrifice, Adultery, Murder, Theft, Perjury
23 For either sacrificing their children, or making obscure sacrifices, or having watches full of madness,📜💬📚
24 they now neither keep life, nor marriage clean, but one killeth an other by envy, or playing the adulterer maketh him sorrowful:📜💬📚
25 and all things are mingled together, blood, manslaughter, theft and fiction, corruption and infidelity, trouble and perjury, disquieting of the good,📜💬📚
26 forgetfulness of God, inquination of souls, immutation of nativity, inconstancy of marriage, disorder of adultery, and unchasteness.📜💬📚
Idolatry the Cause, Start, and End of All Evil
27 For the worship of idols not to be named, is the cause of all evil, and the beginning and end.📜💬📚
28 For either when they rejoice, they are mad: or certes prophesy false things, or live unjustly, or quickly forswear themselves.📜💬📚
29 For whilst they trust in idols, which are without soul, swearing amiss they hope not to be hurt.📜💬📚
30 Two evil things therefore shall happen to them worthily, because they have thought evil of God, attending to idols, and have sworn unjustly, in guile contemning justice.📜💬📚
31 For it is not the power of them that are sworn by, but the punishment of them that sin goeth always through the transgression of the unjust.📜💬📚
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