...against me 1" Thus, in the book of Numbers, Balaam introduces a prophecy similar to that in the text, " I shall see him, but not now : I shall behold him, but not nigh :" Behold what ? — he proceeds — " There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise...

...prophet to curse them : but, instead thereof, he is constrained to declare of the Star and Shepherd, " I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : " and therefore this smiting of Moab is a future punishment : and, turning to Isaiah xv. xvi. we...

...believer in the resurrection as was Job, but saw it not, like him, as the ground of consolation : " I shall see Him, but not now ; I shall behold Him, but not nigh." (Num. xxiv. 17.) I have already referred to the xlix th Psalm, as containing one of the fullest forthshewings...

...49. 10; Num. 24. 17 — 19. The Targum of Onkelos translates this passage in the following manner : ' I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but he is not near. When a king shall arise from the house of Jacob, and the Messiah be anointed from the...

...49. 10; Num. 24. 17—19. The Targum of Onkelos translates this passage in the following manner : ' I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but he is not near. When a king shall arise from the house of Jacob, and the Messiah be anointed from the...

...before the coming of Christ. Ans. 16. Balaam, more than 1450 years before Christ's coming, said, " I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him,...there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel." Ans. 18. See Psalm xvi. 10, 11, where the death, burial, and resurrection...

...Israel, Thou knowest all the travel that hath befallen us. Nu. xx. 14. I shall see him (said Balaam), but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh ; there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth....

...which bursts from the gentile prophet, when the future glory of the Messiah is revealed to him : — I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh: There shall come a Star, out of Jacob ; Even a sceptre, out of Israel. And this leads to a general observation, on the figurative style...

...between hU feet, until Shiloh come ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people 4«. Ge. xlix. 10. J 2 J 3"= 1832"5 Coghlan Cha st.ir out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and...

...Kmg of Kings to accomplish the glorious purposes of his grace ; "I «hall see him, but not now : 1 shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth."...