Numbers 24:17
Douay-Rheims
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the children of Seth.
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
Moses himself [wrote] in the book of Numbers: "There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a man shall arise out of Israel." For this cause, therefore, being God, he took upon him flesh, that, becoming a mediator between God and man, having overcome death, he might by his guidance lead man to God.
Source details
A.D. 317 · on Num 24:17 (EPITOME OF THE DIVINE INSTITUTES 44)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.