bileaam

Updated: May 20, 2025

For all this we may thank our spiritual masters. Thus Peter compares especially these false teachers to the prophet Balaam, since they even, like Balaam, purely for the sake of gold, set up such idolatry and ruin souls. Besides, he mentions his right name, for Bileaam or Balaam is he called in Hebrew, a swallower or swiller, like one who gapes his throat open, and swallows and devours all.

Martin Luther - The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained