The Early Poetry of Israel in Its Physical And Social Origins
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2 For example, Bishop Butler, Sermon vii. Newman, on the contrary, says ^Parochial and Plain Sermons, iv, p. 133) that Balaam ' did not make up his mind for himself according to the suggestions of avarice or ambition '. * Wellhausen, Reste des Arab. Heidentums, 131. LECTURE III 69 principal functions for which they were paid was to curse the foes of their employers in the name of God ; and this might naturally be done to the accompaniment of sacrifices and other religious rites, and by the read...ing of omens or the casting of lots. To these practices the narrative represents Balaam as accustomed ^ ; and up to the end of Balak's efforts to get him to curse Israel, and to change his message by changing his site (a characteristically Pagan resource), it is Balaam himself who directs the building of altars and the prepara- tion of sacrifices. But while continuing to try these, his professional rites and shifts, he holds true to one thing — that he will only speak the word which God shall speak to him.
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