Wisdom 14:18-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ Then the ambition of the craftsman impelled
even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship.
¹⁹ For he, perhaps wishing to please his ruler,
skilfully forced the likeness to take more beautiful form,
²⁰ and the multitude, attracted by the charm of his work,
now regarded as an object of worship the one whom shortly before they had honored as a man.