'And Moses said to Aaron' means perception from the internal regarding that kind of external. 'What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?' means, Why is it that that nation has so turned itself away from the Divine? 'And Aaron said' means what was perceived. 'Do not let your anger grow hot, O my lord' means, Do not let the internal therefore turn itself away. 'You know the people, that they [are set] on evil' means that that nation's interest lies in what is external separated from what is holy and internal. 'And they said to me' means exhortation. 'Make us gods to go before us' means falsities contained in teachings and worship, thus things of an idolatrous nature. 'For this Moses, that man who caused us to come up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him' means a total unawareness of what other Divine Truth exists in the Word that raises a person from an external level to an internal level and makes the Church. 'And I said to them, Whoever has gold, pull it away' means drawing out of the literal sense [of the Word] such things as are favourable to the delight belonging to external kinds of love and to the major ideas resulting from these. 'And they gave it to me' means bringing together into one, and putting into effect. 'And I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out' means self-love and love of the world, from which that worship sprang and with which it accorded. 'And Moses saw that the people had become undisciplined' means that the internal perceived that this nation had turned away from what was internal and so from what was Divine. 'For Aaron had caused them to become so undisciplined' means that the external things which they loved were the cause of this. 'That those rising up against them would annihilate them' means being left without any power to withstand evils and falsities that come from hell.

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