Deuteronomy 19:5

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5 as when he goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron slippeth from the handle, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; such an one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live;


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Door Alexander Payne

Verse 5. As when one who is principled in good disputes concerning good and truths from his religious tenets, and his powers are directed to destroy some principle which he believes to be false by enforcing the tenets he believes to be true, and in his effort truth and good become separated with him, and he destroys the charity with which he is associated, he shall be kept in safety by the Lord and shall not thereby lose spiritual life (Arcana Coelestia 9011):