18
And they have given their gods into the fire; for they◦were not gods, but◦ the work◦ of the hands of man, wood and stone; and they made them perish.
L'explication
Par Henry MacLagan
Verse 18. And to cause in them the union of falsity with evil, because falsities have no real power, being but the images of evil and error among men, and hence without any spiritual life.
Étude de la signification intérieure
Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.