Mooseksen kirja 8:15

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15 Ja on sinun johdattanut suuren ja hirmuisen korven lävitse, jossa tuliset kärmeet, ja skorpionit, ja kuivuus oli, ja ei ensinkään vettä ollut, ja hän antoi veden vuotaa sinulle kovasta kalliosta.


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 15. Who led you through those states of temptation in which there was a great and terrible void of all spiritual sustenance and hope, when the soul was oppressed by evil desires, evil deeds, and delusive errors and longings for a guidance, but where none was to be found (wilderness of the serpent, the flying serpent and the scorpion; of thirst, where there were no waters, Arcana Coelestia 8568); who brought forth the living waters of truth out of the fundamental principle of belief and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as the one only God;




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