Deuteronomy 17:8

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8 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 8. If there arise in the soul a matter too hard for the perceptions of good that are given you to decide between what is true and what is false, or what is right or wrong, in motive or in act—matters that cannot be decided in the external part of the mind—then shall you elevate your soul to the Lord, and to the state derived from the Love and Wisdom which flows from the Lord's Divine Humanity;