Revelation 9:20
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What does Revelation 9:20 mean?
And the rest of men which were not killed by these
plagues,
&c.] By whom are meant the western antichristian party; and
such of them as were not plagued, harassed, and destroyed by the
Turks, as in Germany, at least some parts of it, France, Spain,
Italy
yet repented not of the works of their hands:
their idols, their images of saints departed, which their hands
had made; the goodness of God in saving them from the
depredations of the Turks, should have led them to repentance for
their idolatrous worship of images, but it did not:
that they should not worship devils;
or demons, a sort of deities with the Heathens, that mediated
between the superior gods and men; and here design angels and
saints departed, which the Papists worship, and use as mediators
of intercession for them; and this is no other than worshipping
of devils, in God's account, and is downright idolatry, and the
doctrine of it is the doctrine of devils:
and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of
wood;
which are the several materials of which the Popish images are
made: and what aggravates the stupidity of the worshippers of
these images, and of the persons represented by them, is, that
these are such
which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk;
can neither see their persons, nor hear their prayers, nor stir
one foot to their help and assistance; see ( Psalms
115:4-7 ) .
