Wisdom 14:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ And to worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of the artificer helped to set forward the ignorant.

¹⁹ For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.

²⁰ And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the work, took him now for a god that a little before was but honoured as a man.