Numbers 24:12
Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not say to thy messengers, whom thou sentest to me:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Respondit Balaam ad Balac : Nonne nuntiis tuis, quos misisti ad me, dixi :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Βαλαὰμ πρὸς Βαλάκ Οὐχὶ καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις σου οὓς ἀπέστειλας πρὸς μὲ ἐλάλησα λέγων
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶר בִּלְעָ֖ם אֶל בָּלָ֑ק הֲלֹ֗א גַּ֧ם אֶל מַלְאָכֶ֛יךָ אֲשֶׁר שָׁלַ֥חְתָּ אֵלַ֖י דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי לֵאמֹֽר
The Fathers on this verse
St Athanasius The Incarnation of the Word, Unbelief of Jews and scoffing of Greeks. The former confounded by their own Scriptures. Prophecies of His coming as God and as Man
These things being so, and the Resurrection of His body and the victory gained over death by the Saviour being clearly proved, come now let us put to rebuke both the disbelief of the Jews and the scoffing of the Gentiles. 2. For these, perhaps, are the points where Jews express incredulity, while Gentiles laugh, finding fault with the unseemliness of the Cross, and of the Word of God becoming man. But our argument shall not delay to grapple with both especially as the proofs at our command against them are clear as day. 3. For Jews in their incredulity may be refuted from the Scriptures, which even themselves read; for this text and that, and, in a word, the whole inspired Scripture, cries aloud concerning these things, as even its express words abundantly shew. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).