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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 10:12
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He hath made the earth by his power, etc.] The Targum considers these words as a continuation of the answer of the Jews to the Chaldeans, paraphrasing them thus, “and so shall ye say unto them, `we worship him who hath made the earth by his power’:” who stands opposed to the gods that made not the heavens and the earth, that had no title to deity, nor right to worship; but the true God has both; and his making the earth out of nothing, and hanging it upon nothing, and preserving it firm and stable, are proofs of his almighty power, and so of his deity; and consequently that he ought to be worshipped, and he only. He hath established the world by his wisdom; upon the rivers and floods; or he hath poised it in the air; or he hath disposed it in an orderly, regular, and beautiful manner, as the wordf213 used signifies; by making it terraqueous, partly land, and partly water; by opening in it fountains and rivers; by diversifying it with hills and vales, with wood and arable land, etc.; all which show the wisdom as well as the power of God. And hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion; as a canopy over the earth, as a tent to dwell in; and which is beautifully bespangled with the luminaries in it; hence it has the name of expanse, or the firmament of heaven.
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