John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 10:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For the customs of the people are vain, etc.] Or, “their decrees”, or “statutes”f207, their determinations and conclusions, founded upon the observation of the stars; or, their “rites and ceremonies”f208 in religion, in the worship of the sun and moon, and the hosts of heaven. The Syriac version is, “the idols of the people are nothing”; and which appears by what follows: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (the work of the hands of the workman) with the axe; not for building, or for burning, but to make a god of; the vanity, stupidity, and folly of which are manifest, when it is considered that the original of it is a tree that grew in the forest; the matter and substance of it the body and trunk of a tree cut down with an axe, and then hewed with the same, and planed with a plane, and formed into the image of a man, or of some creature; and now, to fall down and worship this must be vanity and madness to the last degree; (see <234413>Isaiah 44:13-17 45:20).

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