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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 115:8

Psalms 115:8They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.False religionsA false religion has all the outward signs of importance. A false religion could not live if it showed only its lying side. Even a lie could not live but for the one grain of truth that may be in it: it may be a grain of probability only, or even of possibility, but the lie owes its life, however brief, to the element of at least seeming truth, or possible truth, that may be in it. So with... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 115:8

Psa 115:8 They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them. Ver. 8. They that make them are like unto them ] Blind and blockish, Vervecum in patria crassoque sub aere nati; given up by a just God to a judiciary stupidity. See Isaiah 44:9-11 , &c.; Revelation 9:20 , Their foolish hearts were darkened, and they were delivered up to a reprobate sense, to an injudicious mind, Romans 1:24-31 , to strong delusions, vile affections, just damnation. So is every... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 115:8

Psalms 135:18, Isaiah 44:9-Proverbs :, Jeremiah 10:8, Jonah 2:8, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19 Reciprocal: Judges 9:46 - an hold Judges 18:24 - what have 2 Kings 17:15 - vanity Isaiah 40:21 - General Isaiah 41:24 - ye are Isaiah 45:20 - they Isaiah 46:8 - Remember Jeremiah 2:5 - and are Jeremiah 51:17 - Every Ezekiel 6:6 - your works read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 115:8

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.Are like them — As void of all sense or reason as their images. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 115:8

8. They that make them are like unto them The worshipper and the worshipped are alike vain, impotent, corrupt. Isaiah 44:9-11; Jeremiah 10:5; Habakkuk 2:18. The morals of the worshipper can never rise above his conceptions of the object worshipped. The heathen deities were deemed guilty of all the faults and vices of men, as their mythology shockingly attests, and the worship of them could never elevate men to a higher standard of purity. The heathen religion throughout is the invention of... read more

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