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Wisdom 15:17-19
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 15:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 since he is mortal, what he is able to form with his impious hands is dead.
Thus, he is superior to the objects of his worship,
since he has the life that his idols never had.
18 [a]And besides, they worship even the most loathsome animals,
worse than all the others in their lack of intelligence,
19 and without the slightest hint of beauty that might make them seem desirable;
they have been excluded both from the approval of God and from his blessing.[b]
Footnotes
- Wisdom 15:18 The author now picks up again the main theme of chapters 11–19 that had been interrupted by material found in Wis 13:1—15:17.
- Wisdom 15:19 At the Creation, God had blessed the living creatures (Gen 1:22, 28; 2:3). After the Fall, the serpent was cursed (Gen 3:14-15); the same condemnation is reserved for the animal-gods of the Egyptians.
