...the way,: Nevertheless take heed, regard not iniquity ; nor choose this rather than affliction. 3 Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker. Let the potsherd...with the potsherds of the earth : Shall the clay say unto him that fashioned it, What makest thou ? HONOUR AND WORSHIP. IN GENERAL. * Give unto the Lord...

...reference to the same imagery, that striveth with his Maker! strive with the potsherds of the earth. say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou ? or thy work, He hath no hands?" (Isaiah XLV. 9). A still more remarkable use of this illustration is in Jeremiah, where, under the type of...

...them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together ; I the LORD have created it. 9 and temple of Belua, were of the same material. Dean Prideaux. 3. — \ it-ill give thee the treasures...

...Scripture. " Woe unto him," said the prophet Isaiah, " that striveth with his Maker ! Let the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the...it, What makest thou ? or thy work, He hath no hands ? " Isa. xlv. 9. And the apostle Paul, contending that God had a right to reject the Jews, and to have...

...a heathen prince, the prophet says, 'Wo unto 'am lhat strive in with his Maker ! let the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth : shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, what makest thou? or thy work, he hath no hands Г Questions which imply, that nations...

...smoking llax shall he not quench. Isaiah ch. 42, v. 3 7 Woe unto him that striveth with his maker! lx.'t the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth....Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makes! thou? Isaiah ch. 4S, v. 9 8 I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isiiiah ch. 4«,...

...contemptible, they dare say, "Wherein have we polluted you?" But "Woe unto him, " says the Lord, "that strives with his Maker; let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth: shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make?" Quest. But why is it that God will reason the cause with man? Ans....

...explanation can be found in Letters from Egypt. Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that striveth/the King of Babylon/ with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds...that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, /workman/ He hath no hands? Isaiah 45:11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,...

...For Thee to Make Sinceer.2 Perhaps the best of the group as poetry is that drawn from Isaiah 43: 9: 'Shall the Clay say to him that fashioneth it. What makest thou?' Defoe uses the concept in much the same way Browning was to do in 'Rabbi Ben Ezra', where the aged...

...of the potter. The Bible alludes to this fact several times. Isaiah warns, "Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?'" (Isa. 45:9). Paul rephrases it thus: "Will the thing formed say...