Numbers 16:38

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38 In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 38. Even that external worship which is merely representative of what is internal, the abuse of which causes spiritual death; and that, therefore, it is to be made the ultimate form of true internal worship; for with the wicked, externals without a corresponding internal are, at least, an outward acknowledgement of the Lord, and to the man of the church are useful as guides and incentives to internal worship.