45
They are fashioned by carpenters and goldsmiths. They can be nothing else than what the workmen make them to be.
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Verse 45. To be. Isaiah 44:14. Horace (i. Sat. 8) introduces Priapus thus ridiculously explaining his origin; “I was formerly an useless piece of a fig-tree; when the workman, not knowing whether to make a bench or a Priapus, chose rather that I should be a god. Hence I am a god, the greatest terror of thieves and birds.” Septuagint “they are nothing but what the workmen wish to form.” Bible.
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