“But as to unbelievers, being a crooked and embittering generation, as it were, while the morsel was yet in their mouths, "the anger of God went up upon them, and it slew among the most of them": that is, the most of them, or as some copies have it, "the fat ones of them," which however in the Greek copies which we had…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 78
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31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
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29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
— Psalms 78:31 —
32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.