Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 10:14

14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge, every founder is confounded by the graven Image, for his molten Image is falshood, and there is no breath in them.

Some limit it to the makers of these Idols, that can employ their Arts and wits to no better purpose, than to frame such Stocks into gods; this suits the next expression; as men are bewitched, and besotted by these things, so as to see no more into their Folly, than if they were Brutes, and the reason that it hath taken such root may be by reason of mens so much admiring the art of carving and painting, or rather through their Ignorance, q. d. It is for want of knowledge, and understanding that men are thus brutish, Isa. 44.18.

Either it shall turn to his reproach, or rather, he shall see his folly and shall be ashamed of it when he shall discover it, that ever he should make such a thing, and trust in it, and expose it to be adored by others.

It is not that which it pretends to be▪ but a deceitful thing a ly, they turn the truth of God into a lye, Rom. 1.25.

They have nothing of life in them, nay that very vegetative life, that once was in their Stocks, is now lost, much less are they spirits sent down from Heaven.

Marginal references: Or, is more brutish than to know.; ch. 51.17, 18.