Wisdom 14:18
And to worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of the artificer helped to set forward the ignorant.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Provexit autem ad horum culturam et hos qui ignorabant artificis eximia diligentia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰς ἐπίτασιν δὲ θρησκείας καὶ τοὺς ἀγνοοῦντας ἡ τοῦ τεχνίτου προετρέψατο φιλοτιμία.
Haydock's commentary
Ignorant. The arts of sculpture and painting may be prejudicial, (Calmet) and were therefore banished by Moses from his republic, (Philo) as the Jews were so prone to idolatry, chap. xv. 4. The case is different with us. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.