--Godfrey Ashby, Go Out and Meet God: A Commentary on the Book of Exodus (International Theological Commentary; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998), 130.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
There Never was a Golden Age without a Golden Calf
The very purpose of telling the story of the golden calf immediately after the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai is to show that there never was a golden age without a golden calf, when the hearts of humans were pure. There never has been any such animal as Rousseau's noble savage.
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