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Louis Segond 1910
Dieu dit à Balaam: Tu n'iras point avec eux; tu ne maudiras point ce peuple, car il est béni.
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And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they [are] blessed.
And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they [are] blessed.
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2Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
e inspiration. This was evidently the case with Balaam, of whom we read that the Lord spoke to him ( Num. 22:12 ), though he was a prophet of the demons, because God makes use even of the wicked for the profit of the good. Hence He foretells certain truths even by the demons' pro…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 143 (Migne)
sic Dominus praemonuit: «Noli ire cum hominibus istis, neque maledicas populo, quia benedictus est (Num. XXII, 12) .» Cui tamen postmodum praecepit: «Si vocare te venerunt homines isti, surge et vade cum eis, ita duntaxat, ut quod praecepero tibi facias (Ibid., 20) .» Cui jam in…
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