Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
God is not a man, that he should lie,.... Man is a creature consisting of a body of flesh and blood, and of a soul, a created and finite spirit; but God, though he has the parts of an human body…
Here is, I. Preparation made the second time, as before, for the cursing of Israel. 1. The place is changed, Num 23:13. Balak fancied that Balaam, having so full a prospect of the whole camp of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Neither a son of man a mere mortal, with human caprices. It is the only occurrence of the expression that is certainly earlier than Ezekiel.
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