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Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 20:3

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Exodus20:3

3 Thou shalt have no other Gods before me .

Heb. There shall not be to thee another God or other Gods, to wit, Idols, which others have, esteem and worship as Gods, and therefore Scripture so calls them by way of supposition, Deut. 32. 21. 1 Sam. 12. 21. 1 Cor. 8. 4, 5. but thou shalt not have them in any sueh reputation or veneration, but shalt forsake and abhor them and cleave unto me alone.

(i. e.) In my presence, in my House or Church, which you are, where I am especially present, and therefore for you to worship any other God is most impudent Idolatry, even as when a Woman commits Adultery before her husbands face. He may also intimate, that all the Idolatry which any of them shall hereafter commit, though never so cunningly and secretly managed, is manifest to his eyes, Psal. 44. 20, 21. Others Translate it with me, or besides me, as it is rendred Matth. 12. 30. He forbids the worship of all others not onely in opposition to him, but also in conjunction with him, or subordination to him. See 2 King. 17. 33. Exod. 32. Act. 7. 41. Revel. 19. 10. and 22. 8, 9.

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