Numbers 31:9

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9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 9. Moreover the spiritual man, in this temptation and victory, appropriates every affection of truth, all incipient truths and goods, all natural affections, all spiritual affections, and all the knowledges of good and truth, which had been perverted by falsifications, for truly spiritual uses.