A Rotting Conscience
H. W. Beecher. Numbers 22:15-35 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.… I think no man could have his arm rot and drop away, from wrist to shoulder, and not know it; but you shall find numberless men whose consciences have rotted, from circumference to core, and they know nothing about it, They are less concerned about themselves than when the corruption first began. This silence of the hollowing out of a man — this noiseless process of preparing him for destruction, is an element of very great fearfulness. It fills me with grief and sadness, as I look on men, to know that as the snow falls, flake by flake, and no sound tells of its accumulation — that as the dust sifts in, and no noise warns of its choking rise, so silently, so surely, man is heaping to himself wrath against the day of wrath, and does not know it. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. WEB: Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.