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Idolatry's Corrupting Power
Commentators explain that making an idol is a fundamentally "corrupting" act. It corrupts the worshipper's understanding of the invisible God by reducing Him to a physical object. More profoundly, scholars note that it corrupts the person. Humans were created to have dominion over the world, so worshipping any part of creation reverses God's intended order and debases the individual.
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Deuteronomy
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Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 4:16
19th Century
Bishop
Lest you corrupt ... and make. —The connection between idolatry and corruption is twofold. First, it changes “the glory of the
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 4:16
17th Century
Pastor
Lest you corrupt yourselves
And not themselves only, but the word and worship of God, by idolatry, than which nothing is more …
Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 4:1–23
17th Century
Minister
The power and love of God toward Israel are presented here as the basis and reason for a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although ther…