Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 5:13

13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images l out of the midst of thee : and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands .

Which were for the matter of them made of Wood or Stone, smoothed, and fashioned to the Images, which the blind Idolater thought did well represent his God.

O Israel in the Type, and O Israel Antitype, this verified among the Iews, who to this day hate Images for Divine uses, and learnt this in their Captivity; and 'tis verifyed in the Church of Christ, which condemns all Religious use of Images.

'Twas once the great sin of the Iews, to Worship, and Rely on Idols, but when God shall by the Messiah redeem both his Israels, they shall no more sin thus, Hos. 14.3. for they shall know he is the only true God, and there is no Saviour beside him.

Statues erected in places chosen for the purpose, fixed that they move not, had this different name from their posture the matter still the same,

Marginal references: Or, statues.