Psalm 106:20 (WEB)
Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
Fathers and councils · 4
Tertullian
“And when the gold out of the necklaces of the women and the rings of the men had been wholly smelted by fire, and there had come forth a calf-like head, to this figment Israel with one consent (abandoning God) gave honour, saying, “These are the gods who brought us from the land of Egypt.”” — editor's note: Ex. xxxii. 4: comp. Acts vii. 38–41; 1 Cor. x. 7; Ps. cvi. 19–22.
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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.
Read the whole comment“For the head of the calf was the body of ungodly men, in the similitude of a calf eating hay, seeking earthly things: because all flesh is hay.…And what now is more evident, than that into that City Jerusalem, of which the people Israel was a type, by Baptism men were to be made to pass over?” — editor's note: Ps. cvi. 20.
Read the whole comment““Thus they changed their glory, in the similitude of a calf that eateth hay” (ver. 20).” — the author cites it
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