2 Kings 25:4

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4 And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 4. And then the doctrine of the church is corrupted; and those who suffer infestations and temptations are in states of obscurity, between truth on the one hand and falsity on the other, derived from the perversion of the literal sense of the Word, and the denial of the Lord, through falsities from evil, and especially through falsities springing from the love of dominion, the essential truth being rejected to externals.