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Jos_24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
Ver. 9. Then Balak … arose and warred against Israel.] He did not actually war against them. {Jdg_11:25} Sed fieri dicitur quod tentatur aut intenditur, saith Ribera upon Amo_9:5. He did not, because he durst not. Howbeit, because he intended, if he could have compassed it, to fight with Israel, and prepared for that purpose, it is spoken of as a done thing. So Haman is said to have "laid his hands upon the Jews," because he attempted it; {Est_8:7} and the Jews to have stoned Christ, because they could have found in their hearts to have done it. {Joh_10:31-33}
“Qui, quid non potuit, non facit, ille facit.”