Exodus 32:25
And when Moses saw that the people were naked, (for Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies,)
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Videns ergo Moyses populum quod esset nudatus (spoliaverat enim eum Aaron propter ignominiam sordis, et inter hostes nudum constituerat),
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἰδὼν Μωυσῆς τὸν λαὸν ὅτι διεσκέδασται, διεσκέδασεν γὰρ αὐτοὺς Ἀαρών, ἐπίχαρμα τοῖς ὑπεναντίοις αὐτῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּ֤רְא מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶת הָעָ֔ם כִּ֥י פָרֻ֖עַ ה֑וּא כִּֽי פְרָעֹ֣ה אַהֲרֹ֔ן לְשִׁמְצָ֖ה בְּקָמֵיהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Naked. Having lost not only their gold, and their honour, but what was worst of all, being stripped also of the grace of God, and having lost him.
The shame of the filth. That is, of the idol, which they had taken for their god. It is the usual phrase of the Scripture to call idols filth, and abominations. (Challoner)
Of the filth, is not in Hebrew. But it serves to explain how the Hebrews came to be so unprotected and disconcerted. See 2 Paralipomenon xxviii. 19.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.