[1563] (Quod omnis probus liber sit, cap. xi); also The Law Concerning Murderers, cap. 4.
[1564] On Dreams, I, 38.
[1565] Numbers XXII-XXV. Balaam is, of course, referred to in a number of other passages of the Bible: Deut., XXIII, 3-6; Joshua, XIII, 22; XXIV, 9-10; Nehemiah, XIII, 1ff; Micah, VI, 5; Second Peter, II, 15-16; Jude, 11; Revelation, II, 14.
[1566] Vita Mosis, I, 48-50. Besides discussion of Balaam in various Biblical commentaries, dictionaries, and encyclopedias, see Hengstenberg, Die Geschichte Bileams und seine Weissagungen, 1842.
[1567] De migrat. Abrahami, cap. 32.
[1568] Idem, and De somniis, cap. 10.
[1569] De monarchia, I, 1. De mundi opificio, cap. 14.
[1570] De mundi opificio, caps. 18, 50 and 24. See also his De gigantibus and Περὶ τοῦ θεοπέμπτους εἶναι τοὺς ὀνείρους.
[1571] Ibid., Cap. 50. Huet, the noted French scholar of the 17th century, states in his edition of Origen that “Philo after his custom repeats an opinion of Plato’s and almost his very words for ... he asserts that the stars are not only animals but also the purest intellects.” Migne PG, XVII, col. 978.
[1572] De monarchia, I, 1; De mundi opificio, cap. 14.