Exodus 32:6 (WEB)
They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Catechism · 1
From this intimacy with the faithful God, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, Moses drew strength and determination for his intercession. He does not pray for himself but for the people whom God made his own.
Fathers and councils · 11
Irenaeus of Lyons
“These things were for our example (in figuram nostri), to the intent that we should not lust after 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 drink, and rose up to play.” — editor's note: Ex. xxxii. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…four-footed beast instead of Thee, turning back in heart towards Egypt, and prostrating Thy image—their own soul—before the image “of an ox that eateth grass.”” — editor's note: Ps. cvi. 20; Ex. xxxii. 1–6.
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Justin Martyr
““Moreover, you were commanded to abstain from certain kinds of food, in order that you might keep God before your eyes while you ate and drank, seeing that you were prone and very ready to depart from His knowledge, as Moses also affirms: ‘The people ate and drank, and rose up to play.’” — editor's note: Ex. xxxii. 6.
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John Chrysostom
““The people,” it is said, “sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 7; Exod. xxxii. 6.
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Jerome
“Similarly, at a later period, “The people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play.”” — editor's note: Ex. xxxii. 6.
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Tertullian
““The people did eat and drink, and they arose to play.”” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. x. 7 with Ex. xxxii. 6.
Read the whole comment“Hence also, every artificer of an idol is guilty of one and the same crime, unless, the People which consecrated for itself the likeness of a calf, and not of a man, fell short of incurring the guilt of idolatry.” — editor's note: See Ex. xxxii.; and compare 1 Cor. x. 7, where the latter part of Ex. xxxii. 6 is quoted.
Read the whole comment“For “the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.”” — editor's note: Ex. xxxii. 6.
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Gregory the Great
“Again, that levity of conduct follows closely upon gluttony sacred authority testifies, when it says, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play (Exod. xxxii. 6).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
““Having feasted to the full,” accordingly, it is said, “they rose up to play;” senseless repletion with victuals being called χόρτασμα (fodder), not βρῶμα (food).” — editor's note: Ex. xxxii. 6; 1 Cor. x. 7.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also in Exodus: “And the people sate down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”” — editor's note: Ex. xxxii. 6.
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Cross-references · 20
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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 20.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 20.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 20.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.61.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.61.
Cited together in The Instructor I.11.
Cited together in The Instructor I.11.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.61.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.61.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.61.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.61.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.61.
Cited together in The Instructor I.11.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
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1 Corinthians 10:7 takes up the words of Exodus 32:6 (13 words in common).