‘But he was rebuked for his own transgression. A dumb ass spoke with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.'

But let them remember that Balaam was rebuked because of his transgression, and that by a dumb ass. Even a dumb ass was wiser than he was. And the result was that he stopped in his headlong race to disaster. He recovered from his madness. By this Peter is offering a way of escape to these ‘madmen'. If only they will listen, they also may recover. But he wants his readers to know what they are. Madmen who are not even as wise as a dumb ass.

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