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An Unfulfilled Desire >
III. Balaam Is An Instance Of Wishes That Are Never Fulfilled. >
(1) Because His Wish Was Deficient In Character.
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It was one among a great many, feeble and not predominant, occasioned by circumstances, and so fading when these disappeared. Like many men's relation to the gospel who would like to be Christians, and are not. These vagrant wishes are nothing; mere catspaws' of wind, not a breeze. They are not real, even while they last, and so they come to nothing.
