Definition of "fatlings" [fatlings]

• Plural form of fatling. (noun)

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• "Compare Eze 39: 18, where the fatlings are the rich and great (1Co 1: 26, 27)."
• "By the "fatlings" are intended the Fathers of the New Testament; who while they receive sweet grace of inward fattening, are raised by the wing of contemplation from earthly desires to things above."
• "And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings."