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Cumberland inserts, that the import of the word Peor, or Baal Pheor, is he that shews boastingly or publicly, his nakedness. Women to avoid barrenness, were to sit on this filthy image, as the source of fruitfulness; for which Lactantius and Augustine justly deride the heathens. There was an awful mysteriousness in the original Druid sacrifice.
See Macpherson's Introduction to the history of great Britain and Ireland. This idol, which is called by the Septuagint, Baal, is mentioned in other parts of scripture by other names. They went out into Baal Pheor, and separated themselves to their shame. And he destroyed the grove she had consecrated, and broke the most filthy idol, and burnt it at the brook Kedron. Dr.
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