24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-29)The Lord, by the prophet, here repeats the challenge to idolaters to make out the pretentions of their idols: “ Produce your cause (Isa. 41:21) and make your best of it; bring forth the strongest reasons you have to prove that your idols are gods, and worthy of your adoration.” Note, There needs no more to show the absurdity of sin than to produce the reasons that are given in defence of it, for t…
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