Then shall it be for a man to burn - It will provide materials for a fire. The purpose of this verse and the following is to ridicu…

Then shall it be... —The point on which the prophet dwells with indignant iteration is that it is a mere chance which hal…

The carpenter stretched out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and mak…

Then shall it be for a man to burn And which indeed is the proper use of it, but not all that this man puts it to; only t…

Image-making is described to expose the folly of idolaters. Though a man had used part of a log for fuel, he fell down before an image made of the …

1. And now hear, O Jacob. Here, third, he strengthens them by explaining the worthle ne of idols, lest they should believe that the…