Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
Ver. 24. Behold, ye are of nothing.] Hence Paul took that assertion of his; 1Co 8:4 "we know that an idol is nothing in the world." For the matter of it, it is true, wood is wood, and stone is stone; but the relation and signification which is fastened thereunto, is nothing at all: all the being of an idol is nothing but the idolater's imagination.
And your work of nought.] Or, Of the basilisk or viper; it will do you to death.
An abomination is he that curseth you.] Papists, therefore, must needs be abominable idolaters. Dr Rainolds's work, De Idololatria Romana, is yet unanswered. Weston writes that his head ached in reading it.