Commentaries
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Rather, They are vanity, a work of mockery, deserving only ridicule and contempt.
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
The work of errors. —Better, a work of mockery, i.e., worthy of that and of that only, the word being apparently…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
Every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the wo…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
He confirms the same thing. What he called before falsehood, שקר, shikor, he now calls vanity, הבל, ebel. They are vanity,
John Gill
JohnGill
They are vanity. They are the fruit of the vain imagination of men; to worship them shows the vanity of the human mind; a…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the foolishness of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
Here, he infers the destruction of false worship.
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He speaks of the shame of idolatry regarding its foolishne : the idol maker …
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes