Wisdom 14:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

²¹ And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood.

²² And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.