Jeremiah — Chapter 10
Synopsis: Against idols and for the true God. The heathen bow to the signs of heaven and make idols from silver, gold, and wood; but God made the heavens and earth and all things. A lament for the approaching devastation.
Verse 6
There is none like to thee, O Lord; thou art great, and great is thy name in might. God's incomparable greatness contrasted with the idols' total powerlessness. Lapide: the heart's instinctive recognition of divine transcendence is itself a proof of natural theology.
Verse 23
I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his own: and that it is not in man to walk, and to direct his own steps. One of the great expressions of providence and human dependence on grace. Lapide: man cannot direct his own path to salvation without divine grace; applied to predestination — no one comes to God without being drawn by His grace.