Deuteronomy 9:25

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25 `And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said -- to destroy you;


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By Alexander Payne

Verse 25. Thus, again, the spiritual man was brought into a state of deep humiliation before the Lord by temptations both as to the affections and the understanding of truth, as on the former occasions; because it feared that the soul would be cut off from all conjunction with heaven and spiritual life,