Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Nothing more filthy can be imagined than their unthankfulness. They confess God delivered them by Moses' ministry, yet reject both at the first excuse. They knew Moses was in the mount, they saw him go up, but raised mad uproars within days and demanded gods present with them, as though His glory had never appeared in cloud and fire. Their haste to idolatry shows a stubborn, rebellious people who forgot miracles they should have remembered forever.
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After forty years buried in obscurity, Moses, now eighty and seemingly past service, enters his calling through a vision in the wilderness. This teaches that God confines Himself to no place; He met Moses in a remote desert as readily as in a temple. The bush burning unconsumed prefigures Israel in Egypt's furnace, afflicted yet unbroken, and perhaps foreshadows Christ: divinity manifest in flesh.
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Commenting on Acts 7:30-41
This proves their disobedience and ingratitude. The gross stupidity is plain: they think gods can be made, that handmade things with eyes that see not and feet that walk not can guide and protect them. They speak of Moses with contempt and ingratitude, blaming him for the very deliverance they ought to have praised, and when they imagined him dead, abandoned both him and the Lord at once.
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