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18They 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.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. …
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
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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