The Canaanites had been condemned to death that their idolatries and vices might not corrupt the spiritual faith of Israel.
Then we see that they had to be framed in contrast to the idolatriesof the surrounding nations, and are not meant to have further spiritual or moral significance.
But the evil of it was intensified in the Semitic idolatries with which Israel specially defiled itself.
Elsewhere he prays in similar fashion, “that God would put to shame the devil’s doctrines and idolatries of the Pope and save poor people from the errors of Antichrist.
There all nations come to worship at Jerusalem; here her thought and faith are scattered over the idolatries of all nations.
Idolatries never so gilded, waited on by heads of the Koreish, will do nothing for this man.
Their Idolatries appear to have been in a tottering state; much was getting into confusion and fermentation among them.
In some of their idolatries they were accustomed to place a good piece of cloth, doubled, over the idol, and over the cloth a chain or large, gold ring, thus worshiping the devil without having sight of him.
We have too many idolatries and idol manufactories among us to linger longer on those ancient ones.
Idolatries never so gilded waited on by heads of the Koreish, will do nothing for this man.
Even the dreadful fury of the early Mahometan Sultans in India, before the house of Timour, failed to crush the monstrous idolatries of the Hindoos.
The reader must not understand me to mean that, merely as a compromise of courtesy, two professors of different idolatrieswould agree to recognise each other.
Hence arose the idolatries which overspread the whole globe, as well Asia with its islands, as Africa and Europe.
In order to shew more fully that the Mahometan religion was raised up by the Lord's divine providence to destroy the idolatries of several nations, we will give a detail of the subject, beginning with the origin of idolatries.
Imagine still farther that he wanders into those great cities which are the seats of the idolatries of his time.
These considerations help us to understand the persistence of Hebrew monotheism in the presence of the idolatries of Canaan and Egypt, since these were closely allied to the Chaldean system against which Abraham had protested.
Idolatries of several kinds came into vogue, some adopted from abroad, others developed out of their own system.
But these slightly prejudiced persons generally have idolatries and superstitions of their own, particularly idolatries and superstitions in connection with celebrated people.
Savage as had been his measures, his victory over alien idolatries was by no means complete.
Sensuous intoxication is in all cases closely connected with fiendish cruelty, and the introducer of voluptuous idolatries naturally became the first persecutor of the true religion.
Nor should it be a barbarous feast, such as many idolatries encouraged: true religion civilises; "eat not of it at all raw.
Idolatries not only fail to develop, they degenerate; and systems, however orthodox they may appear at starting, which connect worship with palpable imagery, are doomed to sink into superstition.
Therefore the honour was transferred to the far less eminent line of Aaron, and that in the very hour when he was lending his help to the first great apostacy, the type of the many idolatries into which Israel was yet to fall.
The population of the Western Latin empire and nominal Christian church, still persisted in their idolatries and immoralities.
The facts of history demonstrate the fallacy of this interpretation; for the delusions of Mahomet never had, and they have not now, any affinity with the idolatries of the Latin Roman empire.
All this is true of Islam and the idolatries and negations are often replaced.
It did not face westwards, so to speak; it faced eastwards towards the idolatries of Asia.
For them also he may at first be felt as their own, before he is extended to others; he also, from the collision with colossal idolatries and towering spiritual tyrannies, may emerge only as a God of Battles and a Lord of Hosts.
The worship of Adonis, under the name of Tammuz[59], with all its seductive abominations, was one of the Canaanitish idolatries into which the Israelites were prone to fall.
Now, they promise to harbour you in their house, where you will be free to serve God purely, without mixing yourself up with the idolatries which prevail throughout the country.
That is, as we have already said, that you may be accustomed to meet together in God's name, being as it were one body; and that you may be separated from the idolatries which it is not lawful to mix up with things holy.
They were brought back from the idolatries of Egypt to the faith of their fathers.
Their reason was a strong resentment to the foreign alliances, foreign customs, and especially to the foreign idolatries which Solomon introduced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idolatries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
