Idolatry

Idolatry, in other words, begins as a way of dealing with the powers of the universe.

The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

[16] I shall be obliged in future Lectures, as hitherto in my other writings, to use the terms Idolatry and Imagination in a more comprehensive sense; but here I use them for convenience 'sake, limitedly, to avoid the continual occurrence of the terms noble and ignoble, or false and true, with reference to modes of conception.

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

Idolatry is strangely intoxicating, and those that are addicted to it will with great difficulty be cured of it.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Idolatry is winked at among the Gentiles, but not in Israel, 1.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Idolatry is one of the old ways which wicked men have trodden, and the most ancient idolatry was the worshipping of the sun and moon, to which the temptation was most strong, as appears Deut.iv. 19, where Moses speaks of the danger which the people were in of being driven to worship them.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Idolatry is often spoken of as spiritual whoredom, and idolaters as children of whoredoms, Hosea ii.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Idolatry is great whoredom, worse than any other; it is departing from the Lord, to whom we lie under greater obligations than any wife does or can do to her husband.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Idolatry is the most heinous injury and affront to the true God; it is transferring his worship and honour to a rival.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Note, Idolatry is spiritual whoredom; it is the breach of a marriage-covenant with God; it is the setting of the affections upon that which is a rival with him, and the indulgence of a base lust, which deceives and defiles the soul, and is a great wrong to God in his honour, (2.)

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

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