Deuteronomy 17:16

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16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said to you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way.


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 16. And your ruling principle of action is not to be contaminated by doctrinals from the intellectual proprium, nor must the mind be brought back into a state in which doctrine is regarded as more important than life, and religion is made to consist in the intellectual belief in doctrinal formulae and external propriety; for as much as the soul has clearly perceived from the Lord that it cannot be brought to heaven by such means (Apocalypse Explained 654).