Bible Dictionary: Idolatry: Vain and Foolish

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Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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Isaiah 44:19
And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
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Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
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What Hermes Trismegistus Thought Concerning Idolatry, and from ...
... What Hermes Trismegistus Thought Concerning Idolatry, and from ... neither were thankful,
but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 23 what hermes trismegistus thought.htm

Proposition Though the Necessity and Indispensableness of all the ...
... God; neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish
heart was ... The natural consequence of which absurd idolatry, and also ...
/.../v proposition v though the.htm

Of the Fact that Idolatry Has Been Subverted by the Name of Christ ...
... I. Chapter XXVI."Of the Fact that Idolatry Has Been ... not learned from Christ, as those
foolish men in ... In vain, therefore, do these unhappy men, knowing that ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter xxvi of the fact that.htm

Costly and Fatal Help
... He did not plunge into idolatry for want of good advice. ... But their light was all
in vain. The foolish lad had got the bit between his teeth, and, like many ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/costly and fatal help.htm

Exhortation to Abandon the Impious Mysteries of Idolatry for the ...
... to Abandon the Impious Mysteries of Idolatry for the ... me ask, have you believed vain
fables and ... even we ourselves were sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter i exhortation to abandon the.htm

Rom. I. 18
... but became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was ... to be folly and
a mere display of vain boasting ... them he holds the whole of their idolatry up to ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily iii rom i 18.htm

Secondly, to Assign Some Reasons Why Christians must Make this the ...
... Murder and idolatry are not more vile in his account, than their sacrifices ... But in
the disregarded heart, multitudes of vain and foolish thoughts are ...
/.../flavel/on keeping the heart/secondly to assign some reasons.htm

Thoughts Upon Worldly-Riches. Sect. Ii.
... are very apt to puff Men up with vain and foolish ... But certainly it is altogether
as foolish a thing to ... guilty of, it is in plain terms Idolatry; and therefore ...
/.../private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon worldly-riches sect ii.htm

The Inexhaustible Barrel
... She was no more notable than any other heathen. Her idolatry was as vile as theirs,
and her mind as foolish and vain as that of the rest of her countrymen. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/the inexhaustible barrel.htm

Though in Almost Every Age There have Indeed Been in the Heathen ...
... to the worship of God, idolatry prevailed universally ... in their knowledge, but became
vain in theirRom. ... imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened, and ...
/.../vi proposition vi though in.htm