Numbers 31:16

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16 Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 16. And that through these affections the man of the church is drawn away by perversions of the Word, and false teaching to the commission of sin by falsifying the truth in a state of selfish love most external, so that thus remains begin to suffer destruction;