Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Which remain among the graves - "For the purpose of evoking the dead. They lodged in desert places that demons might appear to them; for demons do appear in such places, to those who do believe in them." - Kimchi.
In the monuments "In the caverns" - bannetsurim , a word of doubtful signification. An ancient MS. has batstsurim , another batstsurim , "in the rocks;" and Le Clec thinks the Septuagint had it so in their copy. They render it by , "in the caves."
Which eat swine' s flesh - This was expressly forbidden by the law, Leviticus 11:7, but among the heathen was in principal request in their sacrifices and feasts. Antiochus Epiphanes compelled the Jews to eat swine' s flesh, as a full proof of their renouncing their religion, 2 Maccabees 6:18 and 7:1. "And the broth of abominable meats," for lustrations, magical arts, and other superstitious and abominable practices.
In their vessels - For keleyhem , a MS. had at first bichleyhem . So the Vulgate and Chaldee, (and the preposition seems necessary to the sense), "in their vessels."
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