Exodus 32:25

Were naked] RV 'were broken loose.' For the use of the word in the literal sense see e.g. on Numbers 5:18. Here it is most probably used in the metaphorical sense of 'unruly': cp. 2 Chronicles 28:19. R ead on with RV, 'for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies,' i.e. not with the intention, but with the result, that they became a derision. The lapse of professedly religious people is not only sinful, but brings religion itself into disrepute.