![]() Halley, leaf gold, with which silver threads are gilded, is not thicker than the 124,500 part of a thumb's breadth so that a cube of the hundredth part of a thumb's breadth of the said subtle parts may contain 243,000,000 (l):Īnd strawed it upon the water of the brook that descended out of the mount, Deuteronomy 9:21 now called the fountain of St. Keil has demonstrated that a cubic thumb's breadth of gold is divisible into 47,619,047 parts, which do not escape the sight: according to the computation of the said Dr. Halley has shown that one grain of gold may be divided into 10,000 parts, and yet visible and Dr. Melted it down into a mass of gold, whereby it lost its form, and had no more the appearance of a calf:Īnd ground it to powder but how this was done is not easy to say, whether by beating the mass of gold into thin plates, and then filing them small for this art has remained unknown the chemists have boasted of it as only possessed of it but it seems Moses, learned in all the learning of the Egyptians, had it: however, it is now certain by various experiments, that gold, though a very thick and heavy body, consists of parts which are separable from one another, and to be divided into infinite subtler parts: the famous Dr. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire. Thus it would be taken notice of throughout the camp, and would appear to all who had the least discernment that an idol is nothing, this being reduced to atoms, and made as mere a nothing as could be. He strewed it upon the water - Upon the brook which flowed for them from the rock in Horeb and he made the children of Israel drink of it - Not that he constrained them to it but, having no other water to drink, they could not avoid, when thirsty, to drink of that with this mixture. This speedy reduction of the calf to powder, as well as the materials whereof it was made, inclines one to believe that it was not of any considerable size. ![]() ![]() He burned the calf - Melted it down, and then filed it to dust. Here we see how much Moses excelled Aaron in courage and zeal for the glory of God, as also in authority among the people. He took the calf which they had made - The people were evidently overawed by the presence of Moses, and therefore attempted no resistance while he took away their idol to destroy it.
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