The Apostolic Fathers

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus

by Irenaeus
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Fragment 25

"To carry out the Lord's vengeance on Midian." When this man, Balaam, speaks not by the Spirit of God but against God's law by establishing a different law concerning fornication, he should certainly not be regarded as a prophet, but as a soothsayer. For by not adhering to God's commandment, he received the just consequences of his own evil plans.