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§14. Image worship condemned by
Scripture.
But better testimony about all this is furnished
by Holy Scripture, which tells us beforehand when it says129
, “Their idols are silver and gold, the
work of men’s hands. Eyes have they and will not see; a mouth
have they and will not speak; ears have they and will not hear; noses
have they and will not smell; hands have they and will not handle; feet
have they and will not walk; they will not speak through their throat.
Like unto them be they that make them.” Nor have they escaped
prophetic censure; for there also is their refutation, where the Spirit
says130
, “they shall be ashamed that have
formed a god, and carved all of them that which is vain: and all by
whom they were made are dried up: and let the deaf ones among men all
assemble and stand up together, and let them be confounded and put to
shame together; for the carpenter sharpened iron, and worked it with an
adze, and fashioned it with an auger, and set it up with the arm of his
strength: and he shall hunger and be faint, and drink no water. For the
carpenter chose out wood, and set it by a rule, and fashioned it with
glue, and made it as the form of a man and as the beauty of man, and
set it up in his house, wood which he had cut from the grove and which
the Lord planted, and the rain gave it growth that it might be for men
to burn, and that he might take thereof and warm himself, and kindle,
and bake bread upon it, but the residue they made into gods, and
worshipped them, the half whereof they had burned in the fire. And upon
the half thereof he roasted flesh and ate and was filled, and was
warmed and said: ‘It is pleasant to me, because I am warmed and
have seen the fire.’ But the residue thereof he worshipped,
saying, ‘Deliver me for thou art my god.’ They knew not nor understood, because their eyes
were dimmed that they could not see, nor perceive with their heart; nor
did he consider in his heart nor know in his understanding that he had
burned half thereof in the fire, and baked bread upon the coals
thereof, and roasted flesh and eaten it, and made the residue thereof
an abomination, and they worship it. Know that their heart is dust and
they are deceived, and none can deliver his soul. Behold and will ye
not say, ‘There is a lie in my right hand?’” 2. How
then can they fail to be judged godless by all, who even by the divine
Scripture are accused of impiety? or how can they be anything but
miserable, who are thus openly convicted of worshipping dead things
instead of the truth? or what kind of hope have they? or what kind of
excuse could be made for them, trusting in things without sense or
movement, which they reverence in place of the true God?E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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