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And a certain man sent an arrow from his bowwithout thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.
Commentary on this verse
By Henry MacLagan
Verse 34. While the man of the corrupted church, according to the operations of Divine Providence (in spite of outward professions), is attacked and injured by false reasonings, in favour of the natural man, since he is exposed to the enemy, where lack of conjunction exists between the internal and external man, as to interior and exterior defending truths. And the consequence is, that the doctrine, with its impelling affection, on. which he depends, is turned aside and shewn to be fallacious, since evil has gained the dominion in him.