Verse 4
4. Their idols are silver and gold The contrast still appears between “our God” and “their idols.” The idols of the heathen are pretended images or representations of deities, who, upon the consecration of the images, are supposed to take up their dwelling in them, and to act through them. The image itself was considered as a help to the mind, through the senses, to ascend to the divinities. But the vulgar mind has always omitted this distinction, and paid sacred honours to the image. The Romish Church has borrowed its system of image worship from the heathen, defending it upon the same principle, but has succeeded no better than they in rescuing the mind from depraved and depraving conceptions of God and his worship.
The description of idols in Psalms 115:4-8 is given in the sarcastic style of Isaiah 44:9-20, and developed from the fundamental passage, (Deuteronomy 4:28,) later on copied by the returned exiles.
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