Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' For in you the fatherless finds mercy."
(2) The projected abandonment of idolatry would become in time a characteristic of the New Israel.  Paganism has disappeared wherever Christianity is known.  No Christian religion of any name or creed ever sanctioned idolatry; and even the consecration of sacred images has vanished from the earth wherever true Christianity abounds.  The lapses of the Medieval Church in this particular do not deny the general truth.