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Creation Is Your Servant
Commentators unanimously highlight a powerful argument against astral worship: God created the sun, moon, and stars to serve humanity. The verse states God has "allotted" them to all peoples, signifying they are servants. As Matthew Henry summarizes, it is absurd to "serve those that were made to serve us." Worshipping creation inverts the God-ordained order.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 4:19
18th Century
Theologian
Divided - that is, “whose light God has distributed to the nations for their use and benefit, and which, therefore, being creatures minister…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 4:19
19th Century
Bishop
The sun, and the moon, and the stars. —The purest worship of antiquity—that which we find among the Persians—hardly escap…
John Calvin
On Deuteronomy 4:19
16th Century
Theologian
And lest you lift up your eyes. Moses proceeds further, so that the Jews would not imagine any divinity in the sun, moon, and stars. Nor d…
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John Gill
On Deuteronomy 4:19
17th Century
Pastor
And lest you lift up your eyes unto heaven
The starry heaven, which to do in itself is not sinful; and may be lawful…
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…