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15The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. …
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Forasmuch 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.
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? …
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-21)The design of these verses is, I. To arm the people of God against idolatry and all false worship, by showing what sort of gods they were that the heathen worshipped, as we had it before, Ps. 115:4-8 1. They were gods of their own making; being so, they could have no power but what their makers gave them, and then what power could their makers receive from them? The images were the work of men’s h…
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