16
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
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Verse 16. Drag, adoring his own arms and prowess, (Sanct.) like Mezentius and Capaneus:
Dextra mihi Deus, (Æn. x.)
Te voco, te solum, superum contemptor, adoro. Stat. x.
—Guevare thinks fishes were adored, as they were among the Syrians. Nabuchodonosor attributed all to his own genius, or to Bel, whose statue he set up. Daniel 3. Calmet.—Victorious nations thus honour themselves and not God.
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