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.