Aaron

the twelve springs of Elim, and the twelve gems in the priestly tunic of Aaron, and the twelve stones chosen by Joshua out of the Jordan and laid up in the ark of the testament.

In which face, face to face visible, he had promised himself to him, saying to Aaron too, "And if there be a prophet among you, in a vision I will be known to him, and in a vision I will speak to him, not as to Moses:

whose vocation, in short, they had declined, first saying to Aaron, "Make us gods to go before us";

And Sadon the high priest was the first to perform priestly service in the temple which Solomon built, being the eighth from Aaron the first high priest.

And with the Law, Moses and Aaron, after whom prophesy Joshua the son of Nun, Samuel, Gad, Nathan, Achias, Samaias, Iu, Elijah, Michaias, Abdiu, Elisha, Abdadonai, Amos, Isaiah, Hosea, Jonah, Joel, Jeremiah, Sophonias, Buzi, Ezekiel, Urias, Ambacum, Naum, Daniel, Misael (the author of the syllogisms), Aggaeus, Zacharias, and the Messenger among the Twelve.

And the same thing happens also in the calf-making of the people under Aaron.

and when they had been enslaved to the Egyptian nation and to a certain tyrant Pharaoh, he led them out from thence with signs and dreadful and extraordinary wonders through Moses and Aaron, holy men glorified with the grace of prophecy — through whom he both chastised the Egyptians worthily of their wickedness, and led the Israelites (for so that people, the descendants of Abraham, was called) th …

abandoning the divinity, it gave itself over to images, the people saying to Aaron:

For Israel, which had been known to God, and which had been exalted by him in Egypt, and was carried across the Red Sea, and which was fed in the wilderness with manna for forty years — brought to the likeness of eternity, neither defiled with human sufferings nor fed on the foods of this world, but fed on manna, the bread of angels, and bound to God by enough of his benefits — forgot the Lord and …

but that he was visible before the flesh in that manner in which he says to Aaron and Miriam:

from which Aaron was anointed by Moses, whence Christ is named from the chrism, which is the anointing, which lent its name to the Lord, made spiritual, because he was anointed with the Spirit by God the Father, as it is in the Acts:

And yet Moses bore a rod, and Aaron a buckle, and John is girded with a leather belt, and Joshua the son of Nun leads a line of march, and the people warred—if it please you to trifle.

For abstinence from wine too has its own claims, which had both vowed Samuel to God and consecrated Aaron.

For the first people too had carved anew the crime of the first man, being caught more prone to the belly than to God, when, after they had been snatched from the hardness of the Egyptian bondage by the strong hand of God and the lofty arm, and their Lord had been seen, and they were destined for a land flowing with milk and honey, at once, scandalized at the prospect of the unprovisioned wilderne …

you have Aaron the chief priest.

Thenceforward, when, forgetful of the heavenly arm by which it had been dragged out from the Egyptian afflictions, it demands of Aaron gods to be its leaders;

Aaron is pressed, and bids the earrings of their women be cast into the fire.