| Deuteronomy 4:19
| Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error, thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.
| Service. How then could the nations give way to such stupidity, but because they had forgotten the design of God in creating the heavenly bodies, which Moses therefore takes care to inculcate? (Genesis 1:14.) Hebrew and Septuagint, "which God has divided unto all," etc.; whence some have falsely supposed, that God had tolerated the worship of the stars in other nations. See chap. 29:26. (Drusius) (Calmet)
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