Numbers 18:23

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23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 23. But the Natural nevertheless are capable of uses by conjunction with the celestial and the spiritual man, and must endure temptations according to their quality; they are comparatively and perpetually in external worship in the process of their regeneration; and yet the good of their charity is to be distinguished from the good of their faith, as being worship from love and not for the sake of reward, or as being the Lord's life in man which is not ascribed to self.