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They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
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Verse 28. Blood. Strange infatuation! which has nevertheless prevailed in many pagan mysteries and countries. Thus were Bellona, Cybele, the Syrian goddess, and so forth honoured and appeased. Calmet.—God prohibits this fury. Deuteronomy 14:1. The devil always endeavours to destroy or to injure man. Menochius.
“Ipsa bipenne suos cædit violenta lacertos,
Sanguineque effuso spargit inepta deam.” Tibullus.
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