Numbers 16:22

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22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 22. And this induces in them a more profound degree of humiliation, and the acknowledgement that the Lord governs man by Divine Truth operating first in his spiritual degree, which shall afterwards freely manifest itself in his natural degree; and that, therefore, although evil, in the temptation, appears to prevail, in reality it is the natural man which appears to be in aversion from the Lord.