From time to time, during fourteen years, he redeemed his early promises and executed the "Golden Calf" and the "Presentation of the Virgin.
Tradition has always pointed to the girl in blue in the "Golden Calf" as her portrait, while it is easy to recognise Tintoretto himself in the black-bearded giant, who helps to carry the idol.
The "Golden Calf" is a maturer production and includes some of the loveliest women Tintoretto ever painted.
So they went on to Bethel, where there was another school of prophets, under the immediate shadow of Jeroboam's golden calf, though we are not told whether they continued the protest of the old nameless seer from Judah, or not.
Sargon is said to have carried away with him the golden calf or calves of Bethel, as Tiglath-Pileser is said by the Rabbis to have carried away that of Dan.
The question was: "Why did the Israelites make a golden calf?
Why Israel Made a Golden Calf= The following answer from a little girl was shrewd and reflective.
In spite of all these miracles, the Jews had more confidence in a golden calf, made by themselves, than in Jehovah.
In this account not one word is said about the people having made a golden calf, nor about the breaking of the tables of stone.
From the last account it appears that while Moses was upon Mount Sinai receiving the commandments from God, the people brought their jewelry to Aaron and he cast for them a golden calf.
Neither do I believe that Moses took a golden calf, burnt it, ground it to powder, and made the people drink it with water, as related in the thirty-second chapter of Exodus.
From the last account it appears that while Moses was upon Mount Sinai receiving the commandments from God, the people brought their jewelry to Aaron, and he cast for them a golden calf.
All these arguments with God did not help Moses; he even had to put up with having the blame for the Golden Calf laid on his shoulders.
Golden Calf, too, they tried to restrain the men from sin, hence it was the men only that had to die in the desert because they had been tempted to rebellion by the spies, whereas the women entered into the promised land.
Accompanying God on one side, appeared twenty-two thousand angels with crowns for the Levites, the only tribe that remained true to God while the rest worshipped the Golden Calf.
They remained in this condition until they worshipped the Golden Calf, when all their diseases returned as a punishment for their defection from God.
Supposing the people prefer a golden calf, as the Jews did under the leadership of Aaron, in the name of reason how can it injure either God or man?
Another specimen is presented in the process of manufacturing a golden calf by merely casting gold ear-rings, finger-rings, &c.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "golden calf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
