{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4640","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":32,"chapter_to":32,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":20},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Moses ground the head of the golden calf to powder, and cast it into water, and made the people drink of it; for their heart was hardened by the greatness of their perfidy, and he did thus that it might be softened and made refined by faith. Lastly, that woman who grinds meal well and fine shall be taken, but she who grinds ill shall be left.<br/><i>— Letter 64.3</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Therefore perhaps that calf, being ground to powder, was cast into the water and given to the children of Israel to drink, that so the body of ungodliness might be swallowed up by Israel.<br/><i>— EXPLANATION OF THE Psalms 35:26</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: For Moses ground down the calf's head, and sprinkled it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink it. All the unbelieving are ground: they believe by degrees; and they are drunk by the people of God and pass into Christ's body.<br/><i>— EXPLANATION OF THE Psalms 89:23</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: For Moses ground to powder the calf and caused them to drink it in the water of ordeal; that by drinking of the calf all those who were living for its worship might die. For the sons of Levi ran upon them, those who ran to help Moses and girded on their swords. For the sons of Levi did not know whom they should slay, because those that worshipped were mingled with those that worshipped not. But He, for Whom it was easy to distinguish, distinguished those who were defiled from those who were not defiled; so that the innocent might give thanks that their innocence had not passed unseen by the Just One; and the guilty might be convicted that their offence had not escaped the eye of the Judge. But the sons of Levi were the open avengers. Accordingly Moses set a mark upon the offenders, that it might be easy for the avengers to avenge. For the draught of the calf entered those in whom the love of the calf was dwelling, and displayed in them a manifest sign, that the drawn sword might rush upon them.<br/><i>— Homily - On Our Lord</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2c61e4658481418b56e6a89b1505889f434c88fbf8abd5a7e4dbe48846b862d1","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4640,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6b934a80755bea993c4c34c217e7f068efee6985c3e54a0d34d09c9f86806ab2","translator":null,"work":null}