grieved Rather "indignant." See Hebrews 3:10.

whose carcases To us the words read as though there were a deep and awful irony in this term (κῶλα), as though, "dying as it were gradually during their bodily life, they became walkingcorpses" (Delitzsch). It is doubtful, however, whether any such thought was in the mind of the writer. The word properly means "limbs" but is used by the LXX. for the Hebrew pegarim, "corpses" Numbers 14:29.

fell Compare the use of the word in 1 Corinthians 10:8.

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