...fulfilled that Scripture,— so descriptive of idolatry, — in its most literal import, " The _Lpeople sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to / play." They sat down to eat and to drink at the Lord's table, as they would have us believe, in the morning,...

...Lord. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. (Exodus xxxii. I — 6.) In a former article we have described the great skill of the Egyptians in...

...evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them : as it is written, the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty...

...least, of his worship with that of a senseless idol. It seems, too, that after making their offerings, " the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play," to engage, as was the custom among idolaters, in riotous feasting and merriment, and perhaps in the...

...And first he said this, Ver. 7. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them ; as it is written, ( the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.'' Do you hear how at length he even calls them idolaters ? here indeed making the declaration, but afterwards...

...And first he said this, Ver. 7. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them ; as it is written, I the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.1 Do you hear how at length he even calls them idolaters ? here indeed making the declaration,...

...proclamation, and said, tomorrow is a feast to- the Lord. And they rose up 164 early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." The hearer will he careful to keep in mind this account of the making of the calf ; for we shall find that Aaron gave...

...degrades the reaoffered burnt offerings, and 80n aud corrupts the affections. brought peace offerings ; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down ; for ihy people, which thou broughtesl oul of the...

...as the heathens generally ended their sacrifices with a riotous festival, so likewise did they : " the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play."J In the midst of this their idolatrous merriment, Moses caine among them : his first impulse...

...proclaimed in the public camp, " These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt !" They sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play ; content with a divinity of their own construction, but utterly unmindful of the Lord Jehovah, whose...