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While our Lord spoke of the Holy Spirit's aid and the blessing of angels' acknowledgment, this hearer's mind never left his father's inheritance dispute.
John Trapp's commentary drives this home—one portion of wood serves its *proper* purpose, the other becomes an object of futile worship.
The prophet itemizes the nation's boasts—their *plethos* (abundance) of silver and gold; their merchant fleet, the ships of Tarshish; their military might measured in horses and chariots; their geographical fortifications in mountain and hill; their engineered defences in towers and...
She petitioned the idol to protect her husband, then at sea in a storm.
The Greek word *ergastērion* (workshop) reveals where this transaction occurs—in the very matrix of falsehood itself.
Judah had forsaken their Rock, their *Elohim* of salvation, and in that abandonment rushed to cultivate 'gardens of pleasures' and 'vine slips of a stranger.' They nursed these alliances with Damascus with frantic care, as Maclaren observes: 'In a day...
Isaiah declares: "They shall fling their idols to the bats and to the moles" (Isaiah 2:20).
The proverb reads: "As he that throweth a stone at an idol, so is he that giveth honour to a fool." Colonel Conder first identified the true translation, revealing the comparison's power.
With the remaining timber, he carves a god and falls before it in worship.