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And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men, serving either calamity or tyranny,
did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable name.
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Moreover this was not enough for them, that they erred in the knowledge of God; but whereas
they lived in the great war of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.
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For whilst they slew their children in sacrifices, or used secret ceremonies, or made revellings
of strange rites;
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They kept neither lives nor marriages any longer undefiled: but either one slew another
traiterously, or grieved him by adultery.
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So that there reigned in all men without exception blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation,
corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,
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Disquieting of good men, forgetfulness of good turns, defiling of souls, changing of kind,
disorder in marriages, adultery, and shameless uncleanness.
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For the worshipping of idols not to be named is the beginning, the cause, and the end, of all
evil.
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For either they are mad when they be merry, or prophesy lies, or live unjustly, or else lightly
forswear themselves.
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For insomuch as their trust is in idols, which have no life; though they swear falsely, yet they
look not to be hurt.
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Howbeit for both causes shall they be justly punished: both because they thought not well of
God, giving heed unto idols, and also unjustly swore in deceit, despising holiness.
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For it is not the power of them by whom they swear: but it is the just vengeance of sinners,
that punisheth always the offence of the ungodly.
WISDOM OF SOLOMON 15
But thou, O God, art gracious and true, longsuffering, and in mercy ordering all things,
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For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: but we will not sin, knowing that we are
counted thine.
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For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.
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For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers
colours, the painter's fruitless labour;
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The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, and so they desire the form of a dead image,
that hath no breath.
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Both they that make them, they that desire them, and they that worship them, are lovers of evil
things, and are worthy to have such things to trust upon.
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For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service:
yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all
such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.
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