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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan: images which ye made to worship them." The cause of sacrifices! "And I will carry you away beyond Babylon." Even the captivity, an impeachment of their wickedness!
Theophylact of Ohrid
"You took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan." The divine Moses went up to the mountain to receive the law, and they, Israelites by blood, stood before Aaron, saying: "Make us a god" (Ex. 32:1). So they made a calf in the wilderness, and this calf was an obvious idol; and gradually they fashioned many other idols as well. They were especially devoted to the worship of stars. …
Oecumenius
Moloch, or Molchom. This is an idol of the Moabites, a stone having a transparent and extraordinary appearance in the form of the morning star [ἑωσφόρου] on the tip of the forehead. Rephan is a form of darkness. For when Moses had ascended the mountain, they fashioned a calf and bowed down to the worship of the stars, and having made a shrine they set up the image which they called Moloch. Moloch, if one interprets it, is their king; Rephan, however, is darkness or blindness. …
Western Saints
Bede
And I will carry you beyond Babylon. Because of these (he says) sacrileges, you will be taken captive not only into Babylon but also beyond Babylon. Nor is the first martyr to be thought erring because he said beyond Babylon instead of beyond Damascus, as written in the prophet (Amos V). He considered the understanding more than the word, because they were led into Babylon beyond Damascus, just as beyond Babylon.
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