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He here speaks, either,
1. Of the same image, which is supposed to be made of wood, and then covered with some metal; or,
2. Of another sort of images made of wood, as the former might be made of iron. It is not material which way you understand it.
He marketh it with a line; he measureth and marketh that portion of wood by his rule and line of which the idol is to be made.
According to the beauty of a man; in the same comely shape and proportions which are in a living man, whom he designs to represent as exactly as is possible.
That it may remain, or sit, or dwell; which implies either,
1. That it cannot stir out of its place; or,
2. That when the image is made, it is set up and fixed in its appointed place.
In the house; either in the temple appointed for it; or in the dwelling-house of him that made it; that he and his family might more frequently give worship to it, and might receive protection from it, as idolaters vainly imagined.