He hesitated, and felt a tremendous urge to agree with the other judges. Immediately he postponed the hearing and spent that entire day in tearful supplication before Hashem, begging that the truth be revealed to him. Several days passed until the Rav discovered the money in the pocket of his coat, and he realized that the money had been put there as a bribe. So great is the power of a bribe that although he had no idea he had been bribed, the bribe nevertheless influenced him to pervert the way of justice. The Torah insists that we pursue righteousness only with righteousness and not by any means and at all costs.
Addition is a blemish to perfection as much as incompleteness.
An alien body ruins homogeneity. A foreign idea mixed into a harmonious concept creates dissonance and detracts from unity. An animal that has an extra leg is considered as if it is lacking a leg and therefore treif. Belief in Hashem requires perfection, without addition or deduction. And necessarily without the accretion of foreign creeds and pagan appendages.