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Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
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He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
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Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!"
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So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
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The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
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They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
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They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.
Comparez Esaïe 40.19-20. Il y a une ironie sanglante dans cette pensée que des dieux ont besoin d'être vêtus et parés par ceux qui les adorent et qu'il faut des clous pour les affermir sur leur piédestal. Comment se peut-il que des idées si simples aient échappé au génie des peuples les plus illustres de l'antiquité ? C'est que la folie du péché peut s'allier au développement scientifique, artistique ou politique le plus avancé.