They sacrificed unto demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came in of late, whom your fathers feared not.
All Commentaries on Deuteronomy 32:17 Go To Deuteronomy 32
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Devils. Hebrew, "to the destroyers, or to those of the fields. "See Leviticus xvii. 7., and Baruch iv. 7, 35. (Calmet)
Knew not. Septuagint, "revered not. "(Haydock)
Hebrew may be, "who knew them not "who had bestowed nothing upon them, chap. xxix. 26.
Come up. Hebrew, "of the neighbourhood "gods whose origin they knew, (Calmet) as well as the people who had given them that title; (Haydock) gods of human invention. (Menochius)
Novelty allureth to the worship of idols and to heresy. (Worthington)
