TESTIMONIES AGAINST THE JEWS. 181 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.