Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up
thy
remembrance
The memorial of thine idols, as the Targum. As the Heathens had
their "lares" and "penates", their household gods, so the Papists
have their tutelar images, which they place in their houses, and
in their bedchambers; their images of saints, their crucifixes
and superstitious pictures, which they call "memories", and
"laymen's books": for thou hast discovered thyself to
another than me;
or, "from me" F14; departing from me, and leaving my
bed; rejecting Christ as King of saints, deserting his worship
and ordinances; thou hast uncovered thyself to another,
prostituted thyself to another, been guilty of spiritual adultery
or idolatry; receiving and acknowledging another for head of the
church, according to whose will all things in worship are
directed: and art gone up;
to the bed set up in the high place; to idolatrous temples and
altars, there to offer sacrifice: thou hast enlarged thy
bed;
to take in many adulterers, and idolatrous worshippers; and so,
as Musculus observes, many small chapels, at first erected for
this and the other saint, through the vast concourse of people to
them, and the gifts they have brought, have, in process of time,
become large and magnificent temples: and made a covenant
with them;
with idols, and idol worshippers; agreeing to receive the mark
and name of the beast, and to worship his image, ( Revelation
13:15-17 ) , or, "thou hast cut for thyself more than they"
{o}; more trees to make idols of, or to make more room for the
placing of idols in groves than the Heathens: or, "thou hast
hewed it for thyself", a bed larger F16 than
theirs;
that is, thy bed thou hast made larger than theirs: or, "thou
hast cut for thyself from them" F17; taken away from emperors
and kings part of, their dominions, and joined them to thy
patrimony, and appropriated them to thine own use: thou
lovedst their bed where thou sawest it;
took delight and pleasure in places of idolatrous worship, and in
their idolatry, wherever they were: or, "thou lovedst their bed,
a hand thou hast seen" F18; stretched out to help thee, or
give thee power, or to invite, encourage, and receive thee into
the idolatrous bed; or rather any pillar, monument F19, or
statue, erected for idolatry, which seen, they fell down to and
worshipped.