“They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”
They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, these are your gods, Israel, who brought you out of Egypt. God identifies four violations: turned away, made an idol, bowed to it, sacrificed to it, and attributed the Exodus to it. Galatians 1:6 records Paul's amazement that the Galatians are so quickly deserting the one who called them. The quickness of defection from what God has done is the human problem that only the new covenant's internal writing of the law can address.
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