Numbers 20:12

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12 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 12. But Divine Good declares, concerning such natural intelligence and affection, that because they are contrary to true faith in the Lord, which ought to guide the man of the church, in devoting himself outwardly as well as inwardly to the service of the Lord, and this both as to good and truth, therefore they cannot lead man to the heavenly state, which is entirely from the Lord.