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7. εἰδωλολάτραι. Tyndale characteristically renders ‘worshippers of images’ See Exo 32:6.
παίζειν. Dancing (see Stanley and Alford in loc.) was probably included, as it formed part of the worship of the heathen deities. Cf. Horace, ‘Quam nec ferre pedem dedecuit choris … sacro Dianae celebrant die.’ Odes, II. 12. 19. But the original Hebrew word has a wider signification, to sport, to laugh, exactly the same as the kindred word from which is derived Isaac, ‘he shall laugh,’ so named from Sarah’s laughter. The same is the case with παίζειν, derived as it is from παῖς.