Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 1:29
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Isaiah1:29
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired , and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen .
Not with an ingenuous and penitential shame for the Sin, but with an involuntary and penal shame for the disappointment of their hopes which they had in their Idols.
Which, after the manner of the Heathen, you have consecrated to Idolatrous Uses, that under them you might worship your Idols, as they did Ezek. 6. 13. Hos. 4. 13. See also Isa. 57. 5. Ier. 2. 20. & 3. 6.
In which, as well as in the Groves, they committed Idolatry; of which we read Isa. 65. 3. & 66. 17.
To wit, for the Place of your Worship, which is opposed to the Place which God had chosen and appointed for his Worship.
Marginal references: Or, gods. Chap. 57. 5. [illegible: 1+ letters]r. idols.
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