# Wisdom of Solomon 14:17

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Book: [Wisdom of Solomon](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/wisdom)
- Chapter: [Wisdom of Solomon 14](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/wisdom/14)
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Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.