Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 10:4
A church father on this verse
“(v. 4.) Decorated with silver and gold, fastened with nails and hammers, so that it would not be dissolved (or moved). He decorated it with silver and gold, to deceive the simple-minded with the splendor of both materials. This error has also passed to us, so that we consider wealth as a religion. He fastened it with…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
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In context
2Thus saith the Lord, Learn ye not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, falling on their faces.
3For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
— Jeremiah 10:4 —
5they will set them up that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver