Psalmen 115:4

4 Hunlieder afgoden zijn zilver en goud, het werk van des mensen handen;

Psalmen 115:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold
The idols of the Gentiles; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions. The gods they serve and worship are not in the heavens; but the matter of which they are made is dug out of the earth: and this is the greatest excellency and value that there is in them; and such as are made of these are of the greatest worth, and yet only for the matter of them, otherwise useless and inanimate statues; such are the idols of the Papists, ( Revelation 9:20 ) .

The work of men's hands;
the matter of them is gold and silver, which they owe to the earth as their original; the form of them they owe to men, and therefore can not be God, ( Hosea 8:6 ) . If it is idolatry to worship what God has made, the sun, moon, and stars, it must be gross idolatry, and great stupidity, to worship what man has made: if it is sinful to worship the creature besides the Creator, or more than him, it must be still more so to worship the creature of a creature.

Psalmen 115:4 In-Context

2 Waarom zouden de heidenen zeggen: Waar is nu hun God?

3 Onze God is toch in den hemel, Hij doet al wat Hem behaagt.

4 Hunlieder afgoden zijn zilver en goud, het werk van des mensen handen;

5 Zij hebben een mond, maar spreken niet; zij hebben ogen, maar zien niet;

6 Oren hebben zij, maar horen niet; zij hebben een neus, maar zij rieken niet;