Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Unto Dagon their god - Diodorus Siculus describes their god thus:
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"It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of the body resembled a fish."
Dagon was called Dorceto among the heathens. Horace, in the following lines, especially in the third and fourth, seems to have in view the image of Dagon: -
Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam
Pingere si velit; et varias inducere plumas,
Undique collatis Inembris; ut turpiter atrum
Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne;
Spectatum admissi risum teneatis amici ?
De Art. Poet., V. 1.
"Suppose a painter to a human head
Should join a horse' s neck; and wildly spread
The various plumage of the feather' d kind
O' er limbs of different beasts, absurdly join' d;
Or if he gave to view a beauteous maid,
Above the waist with every charm array' d,
Should a foul fish her lower parts infold,
Would you not smile such pictures to behold?"
Francis.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Judges 16:23:
1 Samuel 5:2
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