9347. 'When you serve their gods' means if worship is kindled by falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'serving' as worship, dealt with in 7934, 8057; and from the meaning of 'gods' as falsities, dealt with in 4544, 7873, 8367, 8941.
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Besides all this, betweenus and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'