Anf-01 ix.iv.vii Pg 19
Isa. xliv. 9.
He removes them from [the category of] gods, but he makes use of the word alone, for this [purpose], that we may know of whom he speaks. Jeremiah also says the same: “The gods that have not made the heavens and earth, let them perish from the earth which is under the heaven.”3345 3345
Anf-01 viii.ii.ix Pg 2
[Isa. xliv. 9–20; Jer. x. 3.]
carving and cutting, casting and hammering, fashion the materials? And often out of vessels of dishonour, by merely changing the form, and making an image of the requisite shape, they make what they call a god; which we consider not only senseless, but to be even insulting to God, who, having ineffable glory and form, thus gets His name attached to things that are corruptible, and require constant service. And that the artificers of these are both intemperate, and, not to enter into particulars, are practised in every vice, you very well know; even their own girls who work along with them they corrupt. What infatuation! that dissolute men should be said to fashion and make gods for your worship, and that you should appoint such men the guardians of the temples where they are enshrined; not recognising that it is unlawful even to think or say that men are the guardians of gods.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 13
VERSE (10) - Wis 13:10; Isa 44:9-Isa 44:20; ; Jer 10:1-Jer 10:16; ; EpJer 1:8-EpJer 1:73; .
