And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Ver. 1. Up, make us gods.] Aaron might make a calf, but the people made it a god, by adoring it.
“Qui fingit sacros auro vel marmore vultus,
Non facit ille Deos; qui rogat, iste facit.” - Martial.