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They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 17. Devils. Hebrew “to the destroyers, or to those of the fields.” See Leviticus 17:7. Baruc. 4:7. 35. Calmet.—Knew not. Septuagint “revered not.” Bible.—Hebrew may be, “who knew them not,” who had bestowed nothing upon them. Calmet. 29:26.—Come up. Hebrew “of the neighbourhood;” gods whose origin they knew, ( Calmet.) as well as the people who had given them that title; ( Bible.) gods of human invention. Menochius.—Novelty allureth to the worship of idols and to heresy.
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