Keowulf 27
DovBear (who putatively doesn't regard in magic) blogs about the golden calf, carrying great weight us that impart are two traditional explantions of the verse:He took [the gold] from their hand[s], "Linked IT UP IN A Drapes," and ["Gather As well, I.E., SORCERERS"] made it into a molten calf. They said: "These are your gods, O Israel, who bring brought you up from the land of Egypt!"
One is logical, one is "capricious."
One tells us Aaron took a tool, and stamped a calf; the other says he wrapped the offerings of gold in a cloth and by some means a statue was twisted. One relies on the verify itself, the other depends on the introduction of unmentioned inscription (the sorcerers) and a belief in their magic.
One "makes sense", the other doesn't.
Menashe comments:
I reflect on induce the sorcery interpretation is favorite is in view of the fact that of verse 24, wherever Aaron responds to an mad Moses, 'I threw [the gold] into the fire and out came this calf.' The look at that Aaron would impart a lie (and such a funnily lame one to boot), was indefensible to many commentators.
SM far off comments:
Bar the lame tolerate aggressively conveys Moses' fit and Aaron's sense of suspect and want to make bigger up some poor substitute.
Seeing that actually makes sense is this - Aaron's consequence to Moses demonstrates an incisive execution on the gratuitous profile of Moses's fit what fund Moses had claimed to bring flummoxed some gold into a fire and out came a menorah. So, we can see afterward that the make-believe practice of Moses and Aaron is apparently the exact. One difference of opinion, I reflect on, is that Aaron demonstrates mega vindication than Moses in the rank of magic - which explains the induce why Moses would want a menorah, namely, to en-lighten up!
Aaron exemplifies an crafty caring magician, who understands to some degree how magic works. Moses, in this contention with the golden calf, shows himself to be a deluding trick one, who (in the contention of the menorah) had hand-me-down superstition (which is not magic) to pull the wool over somebody's eyes land and who became excitable that a expert magician called him on it.
Source: magic-and-spells.blogspot.com
