Why Balaam is both blamed and praised
Brothers asked rather for Balaam’s prophecy. He is now blameworthy, now praiseworthy: forbidden to go, he still presses on, greedy for reward, yet he utters God’s words.
Latin
De prophetia Balaam fratres exposcere maluerunt. Nunc vituperabilis nunc laudabilis: prohibitus a Deo venire persistit mercedis cupidus; tamen verba Dei profert.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia XV on Numbers (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–3.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XV. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XV §§1–3 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia XV §§1–3)
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