And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people did eat [them] with the blood.
Ver. 32. And the people flew upon the spoil.] Hard hunger, which driveth the wolf out of the wood and breaketh through stone walls, as we say, made them impatient, a when once the evening was come, that they might do it with safety of their lives.
And the people did eat them with the blood.] And so with the hazard of their souls, because they did it against an express law of God. Leviticus 17:14 Deuteronomy 12:16 ; Deu 15:23 Pain of death prevailed more with them than fear of hell.
a Praefestinatione et fame expectare nequibant. - Cajetan.