Deuteronomy 20:17

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17 ἀλλ' ἢ ἀναθέματι ἀναθεματιεῖτε αὐτούς τὸν χετταῖον καὶ αμορραῖον καὶ χαναναῖον καὶ φερεζαῖον καὶ ευαῖον καὶ ιεβουσαῖον καὶ γεργεσαῖον ὃν τρόπον ἐνετείλατό σοι κύριος ὁ θεός σου


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Ngu Alexander Payne

Verse 17. But you shall utterly destroy them, namely—(Hittites) The falsities of doctrine which permit or encourage evil, and (Amorites) the evils thus engendered, (Canaanites) The evils proceeding from the lusts of the love of self and of the world in the internal mind, and (Perizzites) The falses which these evils give birth to in the mind to excuse them. (See Arcana Coelestia 6858-6859.) (The Hittites and Jebusites) The worship of anything except the Lord as the supreme good, even though there may be something of good and truth in the thing worshiped (Arcana Coelestia 6860). These shall be utterly destroyed according to the perception given you of their evil character from the Divine Love and Wisdom: