Deuteronomy 9:23

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23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 23. And also when the Lord gives the soul a perception of heavenly blessedness and the way to attain it, and invites the man to acquire the happiness prepared for it, the natural man is unwilling to follow this dictate of the Divine Love and Wisdom, and does not believe in the blessedness in the heavenly life, and refuses to listen to the internal dictate by striving after it.