Jeremiah 44:15

All the men which knew that their wives had burned incense. — The fact thus mentioned incidentally shows that the prophet’s words in Jeremiah 44:9 had not missed their mark. As of old — as, we may add, in the Rome of the Empire (Juvenal, Sat. vi. 526–534) — the women practised a cultus in which their husbands acquiesced, even though they did not join in it.