Numbers 22:6

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6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, Curse for me this people; for they are too mighty for me: it may be I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 6. That therefore his destruction is desired, because falsity cannot withstand truths, but yet that it may possibly prevail, and in fact do injury, in order that truths may be separated; being possessed by the delusion that falsity of this kind is all-powerful, and is either able to effect conjunction with heaven through selfish love, or to cause aversion from it.