Fragment xv. When, in Times of Old, Balaam Spake These Things in Parables...
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus — Irenæus
When, [4821] in times of old, Balaam spake these things in parables, he was not acknowledged; and now, when Christ has appeared and fulfilled them, He was not believed. Wherefore [Balaam], foreseeing this, and wondering at it, exclaimed, "Alas! alas! who shall live when God brings these things to pass?" [4822]
Footnotes:

[4821] This and the eight following fragments may be referred to the Miscellaneous Dissertations of our author; see note on Frag. ix. They are found in three mss. in the Imperial Collection at Paris, on the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, and Ruth.

[4822] Numbers 24:23.

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