...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...years before, but not, alas ! with Abraham's joyful hope. Of HIS victorious career he spake, saying, " I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh."] Having ascertained the import of the prophecy, let us consider, II. The IMPROVEMENT to be made of it...

...near was Messiah's first victorious coming, when Balaam, in reluctant trance, had lately uttered, " I shall see Him, but not now, I shall behold Him, but not nigh; there shall come a star out of Jacob j" — when one patriarch had declared in dying, " the sceptre shall not depart from Judah, until...

...Salaam leaving divinations, prophesieth the happiness of [srarl : 10 Balak in anger dist Gen. 49. 9. sepulcher in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to museth him : 14 He prophesieth of the Star of Jacob, and the destruction of some nations. Scepter shall...