Deuteronomy 17:16

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16 And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.


Commentarius in hunc versum  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 16. And your ruling principle of action is not to be contaminated by doctrinals from the intellectual proprium, nor must the mind be brought back into a state in which doctrine is regarded as more important than life, and religion is made to consist in the intellectual belief in doctrinal formulae and external propriety; for as much as the soul has clearly perceived from the Lord that it cannot be brought to heaven by such means (Apocalypse Explained 654).