Thus they changed their glory into the image of an ox that eats grass.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
17. "And they made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the graven image" (ver. 19). "Thus they changed their glory, in the similitude of a calf that eateth hay" (ver. 20). He saith not "into" the likeness, but "in" the likeness. It is such a form of speech as where he said "and they believed in His words." With great effect in truth he saith not, they changed the glory of God when they did this; as the Apostle also saith, "They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man:" but "their glory." For God was their glory, if they would abide His counsel, and hasten not. ...
Grass. This enhances their folly. God is often styled the glory of his people. (Calmet)
Osee (x. 5.) contemptuously calls the golden calf, the glory of Samaria. (Haydock)
This idolatry was truly blameable, (Romans i. 23.) and not the veneration paid by Catholics to the images of Christ (Worthington)
Those who pretend that the Hebrews meant to adore the true God, and not the idol Apis, are here clearly refuted; they forgot God, Acts vii. 40. (Berthier)
