1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Amos 5:25 | *Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel? Acts 7:42. | Did you offer, etc. Except the sacrifices that were offered at the first, in the dedication of the tabernacle, the Israelites offered no sacrifices in the desert. (Challoner) --- They ceased after the beginning of the second year. (St. Augustine, q. 47 in Exodus, Leviticus vii., etc.) (Worthington) --- God did not require sacrifices when the people came out of Egypt, Jeremias 7:22., and Deuteronomy 12:8. They were not performed so regularly in the desert, (Calmet) and the people still bore a secret affection for idols, (ver. 26.) which rendered all their victims useless. (Haydock) |