Go with the men – A command, not merely a permission. Balaam, no longer a faithful servant of God, was from then on overruled in al…

Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee ... — The command contained in Numbers 22:20 is here repeated, and the unr…

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam.

Again, this wicked man is ironically permitted to do what could not be carried out withou…

And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, go with the men ,
&c.] Which was not a command, but a concession, or rat…

We must not think that because God does not always by His providence restrain people from sin, He therefore approves of it, or that it is not hatef…