Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 32:19

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 346, footnote 10 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 3354 (In-Text, Margin)

... for Ethiopians are black. They are themselves called to the faith who were black; the very same indeed, so that there is said to them, “for ye were sometime darkness, but now light in the Lord.” …Thence was also that calf which the people worshipped, unbelieving, apostate, seeking the gods of the Egyptians, forsaking Him who had delivered them from the slavery of the Egyptians: whence there was enacted that great Sacrament. For when Moses was thus wroth with them worshipping and adoring the idol,[Exodus 32:19] and, inflamed with zeal for God, was punishing temporally, in order that he might terrify them to shun death everlasting; yet the head itself of the calf he cast into the fire, and ground to powder, destroyed, strawed on the water, and gave to the ...