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CALF IMAGE

Greek

3447. moschopoieo -- to make a calf (as an image)
... to make a calf (as an image). Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: moschopoieo
Phonetic Spelling: (mos-khop-oy-eh'-o) Short Definition: I make a model of a ...
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Library

The Golden Calf
... The 'god' whom the Israelites worshipped under the image of a calf, was no less
another 'god before Me,' though it was called by the name of Jehovah. ...
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'Fruit which is Death'
... God disowns them, and says, 'They belong to it, not to Me.' The idolatrous priests
of the calf worship will tremble when that image, which had been shamefully ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/fruit which is death.htm

Spirit Alchemy.
... image of God, may be transmuted into the basest metals. When Moses coming down from
the presence of God saw the shocking sight of the people worshiping a calf ...
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And Thou, Willing First to Show Me How Thou Resistest the Proud...
... head of a four-footed beast instead of Thee; turning in heart back towards Egypt;
and bowing Thy image, their own soul, before the image of a calf that eateth ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter ix and thou willing.htm

The Swift Decay of Love
... But whether the people call the calf 'Jehovah' or 'Apis' matters very little ... Such
worship as these wild dances, offered to an image, broke both the commandments ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the swift decay of love.htm

On Idolatry
... i, 23.) But the Worship, he says, is offered, not to God, whom they wished to represent
by an image, but to the calf itself, and to the image which they had ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/disputation 23 on idolatry.htm

The Argument for Restraining Anger is Given Again. ...
... The shadow is in the law, the image in the Gospel, the truth in heaven. In
old times a lamb, a Calf was offered; now Christ is offered. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xlviii the argument for.htm

From the Fourth Chapter.
... of Him as if of a man: therefore his announcement sets forth the image of a ... the
priesthood, and the victim in the same description bore the likeness of a calf. ...
/.../commentary on the apocolypse of the blessed john/from the fourth chapter.htm

Listen Also to what I have to Say on this Other Expression which ...
... those who had been intermixed with the Egyptians, [1738] set up a calf as their ...
Testament an emblematic or imaginary law, because it was the type or image of a ...
/.../31 listen also to what.htm

Letter i. The Christian's Mark.
... If the calf is diseased, or if he refuses to eat, he will pine away and die ... experimental
knowledge of God in our hearts, by which we are changed into his image. ...
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Subtopics

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Calf of Gold was Made: To Go Before the Congregation

Calf of Gold was Made: To Represent God

Calf of Gold: An Altar Built Before

Calf of Gold: Destroyed by Moses

Calf of Gold: Fashioned With a Graven Tool

Calf of Gold: Made on Account of the Delay of Moses in the Mount

Calf of Gold: Making of a Forgetting of God