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Jer_10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Ver. 3. For the customs of the people {a} are vain.] Their rites confirmed by custom; their imagery, for instance, a very magnum nihil, whether ye look to the efficient matter, form, or end of those idols.
For one cutteth a tree out of the forest.] See Isa_40:2; Isa_44:12-17, which last place Jeremiah here seemeth to have imitated.
{a} Caeremoniae populorum,