But they knew nothing of this, and their service was acceptable according as they had, not according as they had not.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
History, or at least legend tells us that in those days the original temple was surrounded by a sacred grove wherein the sacrifices were made to propitiate the deities worshipped there,-human blood being considered the most acceptable.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The successors of the business men who had moved away were always trying to invent new methods as an evidence of their ability, and some of them did not pay their debts because that was an old, though respectable, custom; they rejected everything old, no matter how acceptable it had proved itself, and got along in an indifferent manner with methods invented by themselves, though the methods of their inventing were usually lame and unsatisfactory.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe