And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
Now, in order that He might be shown to have together in Himself at once the nature of God and that of man—as the apostle, too, says: Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 2:5 Now a mediator is not of one man, but two, Galatians 3:20 — it was therefore necessary that Christ, in becoming the Mediator between God and men, should receive from both an earnest of some kind, that He might appear as the Mediator between two distinct persons.