What profiteth the graven image] A scoffe at the Chaldeans vain confidence in their idols. teacher of lies] Idols are so called, Jeremiah 10:8. 14. Zechariah 10:2. becaus that according to the opinion of idolaters, they are remembrances, and visible documents of an invisible deitie: and in the mean time, they cause mans minde to go astray from the true and saving knowledge of God revealed in his word: imprinting of false opinions of God in him, bringing him down to sensible things, and not raising him up to spirituall ones. the maker of his work] Heb. the fashioner of his fashion.