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Deuteronomy 19:5

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5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 5. As when one who is principled in good disputes concerning good and truths from his religious tenets, and his powers are directed to destroy some principle which he believes to be false by enforcing the tenets he believes to be true, and in his effort truth and good become separated with him, and he destroys the charity with which he is associated, he shall be kept in safety by the Lord and shall not thereby lose spiritual life (Arcana Coelestia 9011):



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