Eze 8:17

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Is it a light, etc. or, Is there any thing lighter than tocommit, etc. for.

Ezek 7:23; Ezek 9:9; Ezek 11:6; Gen 6:13; 2Kgs 21:16; 2Kgs 24:4; Jer 6:7; Jer 19:4; Jer 20:8

Amos 3:10; Amos 6:3; Mic 2:2; Mic 6:12; Zeph 1:9

they put.

So the Vulgate has, {applicant ramum ad nares suas,} "they apply the branch to their nose;" which Jerome explains by "a branch of the palm tree with which they adored the idols;" and it seems plainly to allude to the Magian fire-worshippers, who, Strabo tells us, held a little bunch of twigs in their hand, when praying before the fire.