Note 208 — Chapter III · THE EXODUS OUT OF EGYPT

Sir Thomas Browne, in his Religio Medici (Part i.), remarks on this: ‘I would gladly know how Moses, with an actual fire, calcined or burnt the golden calf into powder; for that mystical metal of gold, whose solary and celestial nature I admire, exposed unto the violence of fire, grows only hot and liquefies, but consumeth not.’