Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 32:24

24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf .

Not that he meant, or thought to perswade Moses, that the melted gold came out of the fire in the form of a calf by accident without any art or industry of his, which was a ridiculous conceit and easily confuted, but onely he conceals his own sin in the forming and graving of it, and lays the whole blame upon the people.