Note 51 — XIX. EXCREMENT GODS OF ROMANS AND EGYPTIANS.

Ye have seen dung gods, wood and stone.—(Deut. xxix. 17. See Cruden’s Concordance, Articles “Dung” and “Dungy,” but no light is thrown upon the expression.)

And ye have seen their abominations and their idols (detestable things), wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them.—(Lange’s Commentary on Deuteronomy, edited by Dr. Philip Schaff, New York, 1879. But in footnote one reads: “Margin—dungy gods from the shape of the ordure, literally thin clods or balls, or that which can be rolled about.—A. G.”)