Hosea 8:6

Israel. This enhances the crime. Can a people so highly favoured adore the work of an artist? --- Webs, such as appear on a fine day in autumn. St. Jerome's master suggested that this was the sense. Interpreters vary. (Calmet) --- Septuagint and Theodotion, "is delusive." Symmachus, &c., "instable;" shebabim. (Haydock) --- Some erroneously read v instead of i. "The Lord casts off the calves of heretics,... and wonders that people should prefer heretical filth before the cleanliness of the Church." (St. Jerome)