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When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
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Verse 1. Divination. Septuagint “to meet the birds.” The augurs judged of future events by the flying, eating, and other appearances of birds. Hebrew “enchantments.” Menochius.—Desert. The plains of Moab, where the Israelites were encamped. He found himself, as it were, involuntarily transported by the spirit of God, verse 2. Calmet.—Yet, for all that, he did not become more holy. Some work miracles, and are damned. S. Matthew 7:22. Worthington.
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