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8They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
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They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? …
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Sufficient care is here taken to answer both the pretensions of self and the reproaches of idolaters. I. Boasting is here for ever excluded, Ps. 115:1. Let no opinion of our own merits have any room either in our prayers or in our praises, but let both centre in God’s glory. 1. Have we received any mercy, gone through any service, or gained any success? We must not assume the glory of it to oursel…
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