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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

The Wisdom of Solomon 15:14-17


[14] But most foolish, and more miserable than an infant,
are all the enemies who oppressed your people.
[15] For they thought that all their heathen idols were gods,
though these have neither the use of their eyes to see with,
nor nostrils with which to draw breath,
nor ears with which to hear,
nor fingers to feel with,
and their feet are of no use for walking.
[16] For a man made them,
and one whose spirit is borrowed formed them;
for no man can form a god which is like himself.
[17] He is mortal, and what he makes with lawless hands is dead,
for he is better than the objects he worships,
since he has life, but they never have. 


IMAGE: Roger Reutimann, False Idol (2016) 



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