OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 32:25

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When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),

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Verse 25. Naked. Having lost not only their gold, and their honour, but what was worst of all, being stripped also of the grace of God, and having lost him.—The shame of the filth. That is, of the idol, which they had taken for their god. It is the usual phrase of the Scripture to call idols filth, and abominations. Challoner.—Of the filth, is not in Hebrew But it serves to explain how the Hebrews came to be so unprotected and disconcerted. See 2 Chronicles 28:19.

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