4 Mosebok 22:5

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5 Han sendte bud til Bileam, Beors sønn, i Petor, som ligger ved den store elv, til det land hvor han bodde blandt sitt folk, for å be ham komme og si til ham: Se, her er kommet et folk fra Egypten; det fyller hele landet, og det har leiret sig midt imot mig.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 5. Wherefore these consult falsity derived from evil, which interprets the truth from selfish love, and from knowledges most external, desiring communication, and inspiring the perception, that the man of the Spiritual Church, having been delivered from the tyranny of the merely natural life, and having been instructed in Divine Truths in all fullness, is opposed to adulterated good;