Deuteronomy 29:23

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23 [that] the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, [and] burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:


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By Alexander Payne

Verse 23. And that all good affections and right principles are destroyed, and that all love of good in the internal will is extinct; that no truths are learned there, nor is there any acknowledgement of them in faith or action, nor do any true scientifics grow therein by which the truth of faith can come; but the whole soul is one mass of evil and falsity from the loves of self and the world, and from a false external worship in which these principles rule, which cannot but be dissipated when genuine good and truth flow in from the Lord: