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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
But he was rebuked for his transgression. "A dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the madness of the prophet" (2 Pet. 2:16). From this we learn that Balaam, having once received a prohibition from God against going to Balak, was again driven to it by his arrogant passion, which he nourished with his frenzied sorcery, but, bridled by the fear of God and the terrible signs that occurred during the journey, he did not change the word of blessing, which was a matter not of sorcery. …
Cyprian
Nor is it difficult for God to open the mouth of a man devoted to Himself, and to inspire constancy and confidence in speech to His confessor; since in the book of Numbers He made even a she-ass to speak against the prophet Balaam.
Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus ↗
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