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They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move.
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Verse 4. Asunder. Isaiah 44:8. Baruch 6:3. Wisd. 13:11. The pagans themselves laughed at such folly. Calmet.—If such things were gods, the makers and tools deserved more adoration: Fabri deorum vel parentes numinum, says Prudentius. The vanity of such idols was more easily discerned than that of the stars. Worthington.
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