Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 22:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 230, footnote 4 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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To Eustathius the physician. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2658 (In-Text, Margin)

... it applies the title god to idols. “Let the gods,” it is written, “who have not made heaven and earth, be taken away, and cast beneath the earth;” and again, “the gods of the nations are idols.” And the witch, when she called up the required spirits for Saul, is said to have seen gods. Balaam too, an augur and seer, with the oracles in his hand, as Scripture says, when he had got him the teaching of the demons by his divine ingenuity, is described by Scripture as taking counsel with God.[Numbers 22:20] From many similar instances in Holy Scripture it may be proved that the name of God has no pre-eminence over other words which are applied to the divine, since, as has been said, we find it employed without distinction even in the case of things of ...