But if "the Queen of the heavens" be adopted, then I am inclined to think that the moon is intended: and we know how much superstition has ever prevailed among most people as to the worship of the moon.
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And as the heathens had, so the Papists have, their idols and images of things in heaven, of God, angels, saints; and want not their queen of heaven, as well as the Pagans had.
That is, they sacrifice to the sun, moon and stars, which they called the queen of heaven, Jer 44:17, 2Ki 23:5.
It seems that the papists gathered of this place Salve Regina and Regina caeli laetare calling the virgin Mary Queen of heaven and so out of the blessed virgin and mother of our saviour Christ, made an idol; for here the prophet condemns their idolatry.
These men had constituted a Queen in heaven, not from God: they also offered her cakes and drink offerings. … Those Arab women imitated this custom, against whom and their followers Epiphanius writes, who in Christianity were the first to apply the name Queen of heaven to the Blessed virgin, and offered cakes to her, as the idolatrous Jews did to their queen of heaven.