Deuteronomy 4:27-29

Ver. 27-29. And the Lord shall scatter you, &c.— See the notes on ch. 28: and 30: When it is said of the idols, in ver. 28 that they neither see nor hear, &c. the sacred writer intends only to represent the gross stupidity of the heathens, who paid adoration to things which had neither intelligence nor sense; to mere statues, which were so far from having any just title to religious worship, that they had less perfection than even the makers of them. See the fine passages referred to in the margin.