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Exodus 32:4,5
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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Psalm 106:20
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eats grass.
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Library

A Letter from Origen to Gregory.
... there was a third and fourth quality of gold, from it ... flying from the wisdom of God,
and was made a kinsman ... and to make them say to the golden calf, "These be ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origens letters/a letter from origen to 2.htm

On Idolatry
... Stephen says, "They made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol."
(Acts 7:41.) On this account also he calls them, "gods of gold and silver ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/disputation 23 on idolatry.htm

Impiety of Attributing a visible Form to God. --The Setting up of ...
... As for crosses of gold and silver, it may be true that the avaricious give their
eyes ... was a God whose hand led them out of Egypt before they made the calf. ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 11 impiety of attributing.htm

God's People in the Furnace
... out worse than he was before"he comes out a calf. ... ye are of value, saints, because
ye are gold, therefore ye ... that ye are valuable, ye must be made to pass ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/gods people in the furnace.htm

Introduction
... again, speaking of His humanity, and the gold of His ... other feature""with cherubim
shall it be made." The veil ... the second living creature like a calf, and the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/why four gospels/introduction.htm

The Second Commandment
... heathen has been so simple as to think gold or silver ... uncia aurei vituli, an ounce
of the golden calf in it ... with the sunbeams of his favour; he has made us swim ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 2 the second commandment.htm

Book iv. --Of Marcion's Antitheses.
... In the calf's type Christ destined bodily. ... [1583] The ark was overlaid with gold
without as ... olive--of which the pure oil for the lamps was to be made: Exodus 27 ...
/.../book iv of marcions antitheses.htm

The First Commandment --On the Honor and Invocation of Saints
... Moses and afterwards told him to make images; namely, angels of gold for the ... God,
and they thought he was not coming back, they made a golden calf and adored ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 31 the first commandmenton.htm

The Prophecies
... It was only after they had sacrificed to the golden calf that I ... of His hand hath
He hid me, and hath made my words ... "The silver is mine, and the gold is mine ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pascal/pensees/section xi the prophecies.htm

section v.
... This is made good by experience, which can from the ... fire calcined or burnt the Golden
Calf unto powder ... more impregnable and fixed temper like Gold, though they ...
//christianbookshelf.org/browne/religio medici/section v.htm

Subtopics

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Calf of Gold was Made: After an Egyptian Model

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