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For the good of His proved church He ever proves Himself to be the Living God, whereas idols and idol-worshippers are vain - throughout following Psa 115:4-8, but with some abridgments. Here only the אַף used as a particle recalls what is said there of the organ of smell (אַף) of the idols that smells not, just as the רוּחַ which is here (as in Jer 10:14) denied to the idols recalls the הָרִיחַ denied to them there. It is to be rendered: also there is not a being of breath, i.e., there is no breath at all, not a trace thereof, in their mouth. It is different in 1Sa 21:9, where אִין יֵשׁ (not אֵין) is meant to be equivalent to the Aramaic אִין אִית, num (an) est; אִין is North-Palestinian, and equivalent to the interrogatory אִם (after which the Targum renders אִלּוּ אִית).