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Fragment 23

To render vengeance from the Lord to Midian. For he that no...

To render vengeance from the Lord to Midian.1 For2 he that no longer speaketh in the Spirit of God,3 but against God’s Law setteth up another law, that of fornication, will no longer be accounted as a Prophet, but as a soothsayer: for he not abiding in the commandment of God, received meet reward of his evil machination.


  1. Fragments . 

  2. t Extant in Leipzig Catena, i. 1381. 

  3. Num. 31:3.