Deuteronomy 21:4

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4 and the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley.


Commentarius in hunc versum  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 4. And the primary truths of that doctrine agreeing with good, together with the good of the natural man which is in innocence, shall be brought to a perception of their ignorance and obscure state, in which there are naturally no genuine truths and goods of faith, and in that state of humiliation the soul shall reject all that is evil in the doctrines imbibed into the external memory, and be freed from the evils resulting, because the influx from heaven was destroyed through ignorance (Arcana Coelestia 9262, see also Arcana Coelestia 8902, 4503):