Latin buffs. A little help please

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Elsewhere I’m making a point that society has devolved to the point where we are not saying, “We have no king but Caesar” but “We have no god but Caesar” and I want to put it in Latin. The Vulgate has that passage from John as *non habemus regem nisi Caesarem. *My very poor Latin guess would be that my version would go *non habemus deum nisi Caesarem. *Yes? Close? Way off? Thanks.
 
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Elsewhere I’m making a point that society has devolved to the point where we are not saying, “We have no king but Caesar” but “We have no god but Caesar” and I want to put it in Latin. The Vulgate has that passage from John as *non habemus regem nisi Caesarem. *My very poor Latin guess would be that my version would go *non habemus deum nisi Caesarem. *Yes? Close? Way off? Thanks.
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Handy little tool here: translate.google.com/#la/en/non%20habemus%20deum%20nisi%20Caesarem.

translate.google.com does translations on line.
 
Yeah, I’ve used some of those before, but I like to double-check with human (name removed by moderator)ut. 🙂
 
Scottgun said:
Elsewhere I’m making a point that society has devolved to the point where we are not saying, “We have no king but Caesar” but “We have no god but Caesar” and I want to put it in Latin. The Vulgate has that passage from John as *non habemus regem nisi Caesarem. *My very poor Latin guess would be that my version would go *non habemus deum nisi Caesarem. *Yes? Close? Way off? Thanks.
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This is correct.
 
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