Verses 23-24
23, 24. I am not polluted New and most significant imagery is employed to illustrate the insane lust of idolatry. The reckless greed of the people for the excitements of the false worship is figured by the swift dromedary traversing her ways, and the wild ass running herself weary in her heat.
Thy way in the valley Is probably an allusion to the valley of Ben-Hinnom, to the south of Jerusalem, where the rites of Moloch were celebrated, and which had become infamous as the place where human sacrifices were offered. It was fitly a type of hell and its ever-burning fire.
Swift dromedary Rather, camel-filly. The adjective suggests the animal heat which is the main feature of the comparison. “Traversing” that is, crossing, or interweaving; a graphic picture of urgent, unregulated haste.
Wild ass Emblem of unbridled licentiousness. See Job 24:5; Job 39:5.
Snuffeth up wind… occasion… her month All these terms point to the one feature of the comparison the passionate heat of the animal.
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