Exodus 32:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And made by the work of God; the writing also of God was graven in the tables.
Douay-Rheims

וְהַ֨לֻּחֹ֔ת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה וְהַמִּכְתָּ֗ב מִכְתַּ֤ב אֱלֹהִים֙ ה֔וּא חָר֖וּת עַל־הַלֻּחֹֽת׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Gregory of Nyssa

4th centuryChurch Father

He who has reached such great heights, through the elevations we have examined, holds in his hands the divinely crafted tablets that embody the Divine law; yet he is himself shattered, weighed down by the unyielding obstinacy of those who have sinned.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Ex 31:18And the Lord, when he had ended these words in Mount Sinai, gave to Moses two stone tables of testimony, written with the finger of God.
2 Cor 3:3Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.
Heb 8:10For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind: and in their heart will I write them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.
Ex 34:4Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before; and rising very early he went up into the Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, carrying with him the tables.
Deut 9:15And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,
Deut 9:9When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water.
Deut 9:11And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,
Deut 10:1At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone like the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make an ark of wood,