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you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
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No Loopholes for Idolatry
Commentators stress that this command forbids all forms of worship directed at images, not just worship of the image itself. John Calvin argues that the common excuse of honoring God through an object is invalid. God desires spiritual worship and views using any physical representation in worship as a denial of His true, invisible nature.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare Exodus 20 and notes.
Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats…
19th Century
Anglican
Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children. —There are no sins which so surely entail penal consequences upon…
16th Century
Protestant
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them. Idolaters in vain try to evade this second point with their foolish quibbles; as among the Papi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:6).
There is some variation here from Exodus 20, similar to the variation between the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. It is more necessary that…
