* took the calf.
How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry
appear, when they were obliged to drink their god, reduced to
powder, and strewed on the water! Some have asked, how gold,
the most ductile and ponderous of all metals, could have been
stamped into dust, and strewed on the water. In De 9:21,
this is fully explained. I took, says Moses, your sin, the
calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire; that is,
melted it down, probably into ingots or gross plates, and
stamped it, beat it into thin lamin(912c) something like our gold
leaf, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as
dust, which might be very easily done by the action of the
hands, when beat into thin plates or leaves as the original
words {ekkoth,} and {dak,} imply.
De 7:5,25 9:21 2Ki 23:6,15
* made the.
Pr 1:31 14:14
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