2 Kings 23:8

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8 And he bringeth in all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defileth the high places where the priests have made perfume, from Geba unto Beer-Sheba, and hath broken down the high places of the gates that [are] at the opening of the gate of Joshua, head of the city, that [is] on a man's left hand at the gate of the city;


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 8. This good man also separates evil affections from the doctrine of the true church, perceiving that those evils have corrupted the natural affections by false worship, and this as to ultimate things as well as to things internal; he also overcomes, in himself, the merely natural love of knowledge, by which, at first, there is an entrance into the doctrine of the church concerning salvation through the exercise of the intellectual powers.