“But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?”
'They told Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt - we don't know what has happened to him - the refrain 'this fellow Moses' (ho Mōysēs houtos, this Moses) expresses contempt and alienation. The demand for gods reflects Exodus 32:1, the golden calf incident. The 'gods who will go before us' (theous hoi proporefountai hēmōn) suggests desire for a tangible, controllable deity, not the transcendent God who demands obedience.
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