29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
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To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? …
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. …
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)We have here St. Paul’s sermon at Athens. Divers sermons we have had, which the apostles preached to the Jews, or such Gentiles as had an acquaintance with and veneration for the Old Testament, and were worshippers of the true and living God; and all they had to do with them was to open and allege that Jesus is the Christ ; but here we have a sermon to heathens, that worshipped false gods, and wer…
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