20. They said that they only meant to worship the one God under a fitting
and suggestive similitude by which his great power would be set forth to the
multitude; but in very deed they had given up the true God, whom it had been
their glory to adore, and had set up a rival to him, not a representation of
him; for how should he be likened to a bullock? The psalmist is very
contemptuous, and justly so: irreverence towards idols is an indirect reverence
to God. False gods, attempts to represent the true God, and indeed all material
things which are worshiped are so much filth upon the face of the earth. God
abhors them, and so should we.
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