Indeed Hope,
Lapsi sumus, debemus honorare pro libertate tantum aes
Also Interesting and apt connectivity Packajos000 for I first dropped across Molech or Moloch in Milton and then intrigued at the tie traced him back to the Canaanites in the Old Testament; there are a number of other versions of this name.
Your extract: ‘in adeste de rectum moloch cum illi facient Qui belle agere Qui habet. Quod Qui confossus..’
In English translation becomes:
‘He will do that in the battle against one another, but when they come all ye of the person who has the right to Molech. But He was pierced…’
Moloch (Molech) has been used figuratively in English literature from John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) to Allen Ginsberg's ‘Howl’ (1955), in reference to a person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice.
Old Testament History:
In the Levitical ordinances delivered to the Israelites by Moses there are stern prohibitions of Molech-worship (Leviticus 18:21; 20:2-5). Parallel to these prohibitions, although the name of the god is not mentioned, are those of the Deuteronomic Code where the abominations of the Canaanites are forbidden, and the burning of their sons and daughters in the fire (to Molech) is condemned as the climax of their wickedness (Deuteronomy 12:31; 18:10-13).
The popular conception of this figure is moulded largely by Milton's ‘Moloch, horrid king’ as described in Paradise Lost, Book I, which is derived from the accounts provided by late Latin and Greek writers, particularly the account which Diodorus Siculus gives in his History of the Carthaginian Kronos or Moloch. The image of Moloch was a human figure with a bull's head and outstretched arms, ready to receive the children destined for sacrifice. The image fashioned from metal was heated red hot by a fire lit within, and the children laid on its arms rolled off into the fiery pit below. In order to drown the cries of the victims, flutes were played, and drums were beaten; and mothers stood by without tears or sobs, to give the impression of the voluntary character of the offering (Rawlinson's Phoenicia, 113, offers greater detail I would say).
Undoubtedly symbolic of the fact that the very young epitomise the worst most poignant casualties amidst the horror of all consuming war, made most prominent in media coverage of the tragic devastation of Aleppo, a city which has itself had strong biblical connection.
The Aleppo Codex is a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. The codex was written in the city of Tiberias in northern Israel in the 10th century C.E., and endorsed for its accuracy by Maimonides.