Salmi 78:29

29 Così essi mangiarono e furon ben satollati, e Dio mandò loro quel che aveano bramato.

Salmi 78:29 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:29

So they did eat, and were well filled
. Or "exceedingly filled" F13, or too much, as some versions render it; they eat to excess, not merely to satisfy nature, but to gratify their sensual appetite: gluttony is a sin; it is an abuse of the creatures; it hurts the body by filling it with gross humours, and bringing diseases on it; it is injurious to the mind; the heart may be overcharged by it; it disposes it to sin; it leads to impiety, to atheism, and disbelief of a future state, which often go along with it, and ends in destruction, which is the case of those whose god is their belly:

for he gave them their own desire;
or their lust F14, what they lusted after, flesh; and they had as much of it as they would, though this was given in judgment; and a sad thing it is when God gives men a fulness of this world's things, and leaves them to the abuse of them, or sends leanness into their souls, and gives them up to their own hearts' lusts.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 (dam webvyw) "et saturati sunt valde", Pagninus, Montanus
F14 (Mtwat) "concupiscentiam ipsorum", Cocceius.

Salmi 78:29 In-Context

27 fece piover su loro della carne come polvere, degli uccelli alati, numerosi come la rena del mare;
28 e li fece cadere in mezzo al loro campo, d’intorno alle loro tende.
29 Così essi mangiarono e furon ben satollati, e Dio mandò loro quel che aveano bramato.
30 Non si erano ancora distolti dalle loro brame, avevano ancora il loro cibo in bocca,
31 quando l’ira di Dio si levò contro loro, e ne uccise tra i più fiorenti, e abbatté i giovani d’Israele.
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