that they should not worship … idols This verse gives us the only clue we have to the interpretation. It is a plague on idolatersthat is here described neither on unfaithful Christians, nor on antichristian infidels of a more refined type unless the latter shall in the last days, as in the age of the Roman persecutions, and one may almost say of the Renaissance and Reformation, ally itself against the Gospel with the vulgar or sensuous idolatry which it was its natural tendency to despise.

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