and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

receiving the wages of wickedness, accounting luxury in the day-time a pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceptions while feasting with you,

but had a rebuke of his transgression; the dumb ass, speaking with a man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet.