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whom have ye likenedme ? See and understandthatye errin
your heart,who lavishgold out of the bag, and weigh silver
inthebalance,bringingitup to the weight. The workmen
have made with theirhand the things made : and bowing
themselves,they have adored it,and have raisediton their
shoulders: and thus they walked. But if they shouldplace
them down, they will abide in theirplace,and willnot be
moved ; and they willnot hear those who cry unto them :
they willnot save them from evils."1Also in Jeremiah:
" The Lord, who made heaven and earth,in strengthhath
orderedthe world, in His wisdom hath stretchedforth the
heaven,and the multitudeof the watersin the heaven. He
hath brought out the cloudsfrom the end of the earth,the
lightningsin the clouds; and He hath brought forth the
winds from His treasures.Every man is made foolishby
hisknowledge, every artificeris confounded by his graven
images; because he hath molten a falsehood: there is no
hreathin them. The works shutup in them are made vain;
inthe time of theirconsiderationthey shallperish."2 And
intheApocalypse : " And the sixthangel sounded with his
trumpet. And I heard one of the four cornersof the golden
ark,which is in the presenceof God, saying to the sixth
angelwho had the trumpet,Loose the four angelswhich are
bound upon the greatriverEuphrates. And thefourangels
were loosed,which were preparedforan hour,and a day,and
a month, and a year,to slaythe thirdpartof men ; and the
number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred
thousandof thousand:I heard thenumber of them. And then
I saw the horsesin the vision,and thosethatsateupon them,
having breastplatesof fire,and of hyacinth,and of sulphur:
and the heads of the horses[asthe heads of lions]; and out
of theirmouth went fire,and smoke, and sulphur. By these
threeplagues the thirdpartof men was slain,by the fire,and
thesmoke, and thesulphurwhich went forthfrom theirmouth,
and isintheirtails: fortheirtailswere likeunto eels; forthey
had heads,and with them they do mischief. And the restof
themen who were not slainby theseplagues,nor repentedof
i Isa.xlvi.6,7. 2Jer.li.16-19.