2 Peter 2:16
But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- correptionem vero habuit suæ vesaniæ : subjugale mutum animal, hominis voce loquens, prohibuit prophetæ insipientiam.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- ἔλεγξιν δὲ ἔσχεν ἰδίας παρανομίας· ὑποζύγιον ἄφωνον ἐν ἀνθρώπου φωνῇ φθεγξάμενον ἐκώλυσεν τὴν τοῦ προφήτου παραφρονίαν.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How the whole and the sick are to be admonished
The sick are to be admonished to consider how great health of the heart is in bodily affliction, which recalls the mind to knowledge of itself, and renews the memory of infirmity which health for the most part casts away, so that the spirit, which is carried out of itself into elation, may be reminded by the smitten flesh from which it suffers to what condition it is subject. Which thing is rightly signified to Balaam (had he but been willing to follow obediently the voice of God ) in the very retardation of his journey ( Num. xxii. 23 , seq. ). For Balaam is on his way to attain his purpose; but the animal which is under him thwarts his desire. …