Thou shalt not go with them neither shalt thou curse the people.1 He2 speaks in a figure, not of the people, for they were all overthrown, but on account of the foreshewn Mystery of Christ. For since He was to be born of the fathers according to the flesh, the Spirit afore instructs the man, lest going forth in ignorance he should curse the people. [Not3 as though a curse availeth ought against God’s Will, but for a token of the providence of God which He had towards them because of their forefathers.]