Psalms 105:28
They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et initiati sunt Beelphegor, et comederunt sacrificia mortuorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐτελέσθησαν τῷ Βεελφεγώρ, καὶ ἔφαγον θυσίας νεκρῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 106:28
- וַ֭יִּצָּ֣מְדוּ לְבַ֣עַל פְּע֑וֹר וַ֝יֹּאכְל֗וּ זִבְחֵ֥י מֵתִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Dead idols, without life, (Challoner) particularly Adonis (Calmet) whose death is bewailed by the poets, &c. (Haydock)
Idols kill their votaries. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVI
23. “They were initiated also unto Baalpeor;” that is, were consecrated to the Gentile idol; “and ate the offerings of the dead” ( ver. 28 ). “Thus they provoked Him to anger with their own inventions; and destruction was multiplied among them” ( ver. 29 ). As if He had deferred the lifting up of His hand which was to cast them down in the desert, and to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands; as the Apostle saith: “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowl edge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.” “‘Destruction,’ therefore, ‘was multiplied among them,’ when they were heavily punished for their heavy sins.”