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Jer_2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Ver. 23. How canst thou say, I am not polluted?] q.d., With what face? but that sin hath woaded an impudence in thy face.
I have not gone after Baalim.] The whole crew of heathen deities - lords or masters, the word signifieth - which Cicero {a} saith were but men; their temples were their sepulchres, and their religion superstition. He further wisheth that he could as easily discern the true religion as discover the false.
See thy way in the valley.] Of Ben-Hinnom, where thou hast sacrificed thy children to Moloch, thy chief Baal - that is, say some, to the sun, as to the universal cause, strongly concurring to the generation of their children so sacrificed. {b}
Thou art a swift dromedary.] That runneth amadding after her mate; so dost thou after idols. Compare 1Co_12:2.
{a} De Nat. Deor.
{b} Sol et homo generant hominem.