1778. * From this one could come to several conclusions, such as, in the case of Balaam [Num. 23, 24:1-9], that if he had cursed Jacob's descendants at that time, some in the world of spirits, convinced [by that act], would have incited many multitudes against Jacob's descendants, and the evil would have attempted to corrupt the good, the world of spirits before the coming of the Lord being of that character. But after His coming they could not open their mouths. * 1777 is lacking in the original. Bush suggests that the unnumbered paragraph [1770 1/2] was intended to bear that number.