...thou sayest unto me : come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people." Balaam replied, " If Ealak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more." Was this reply made conscientiously, fearlessly, conclusively...

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...those whom he ought to have protected, even Balaam himself shall be awed into a momentary virtue. " If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold,...commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak.'' Alas ! the number and malice of our false...

...also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, 1 3. If Balak would give me his house ful mpson own mind ; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak? 14. And now, behold, I go unto my peo pie: come...

...as faith and well-grounded experience ; as we see plainly in the case of Balaam, Numb. xxii. 18: "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God." Now, say you, since a presumptuous confidence may speak in the dialect of...

...I pray thee, curse me this people. 18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, slf Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot fo beyond the word of the LORD my God, to o less or more. 19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also...

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...thou mayest curse me from thence ;" — and Balaam's answer discovered his own impotence. — " If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold,...commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; but what he saith, that will I speak." But, although their design was really to propitiate...

...Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou senteat unto Zimri and COSDI slain me, Baying. 13 If- ' turn into the fields, or into the vineyards ; we will not drink of the waters of the well : but todoeiiAergood or bad of mine own mind ; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak ? 14 And now. behold,...

...by any principle of deference to the divine will, or any zeal for his glory. Balaam could say, " If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more," because he knew well that such was the case ; but, at...