Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 10:11
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Jeremiah10:11
11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Viz. To your great Lords the Babylonians, when they shall solicite you to Worship Idols.
This seems to have some allusion to a saying common among those Greeks, that held one supream Deity, let him that saith he is a God, make another World.
Here is noted, both how frail they are, they shall perish, and how weak they are, they could not make the Heaven, or the Earth. This verse is writ in the Chaldaean Tongue, and not in the Hebrew, that when they came among them, that did worship their Idols, they might openly and plainly profess the true God in that language which the Enemies understood better, then they did the Hebrew, and that in such kind of bold Language as this; Let all those Gods perish from of the Earth, and under the Heavens, that were not able to make either. It is an Imprecation upon their Idols.
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