And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
Ver. 4. I have prepared seven altars.] He boasts of his devotions, and so thinks to demerit God's favour. So those hypocrites in Isaiah. Isa 58:3 Non sic deos coluimus, ut ille nos vinceret, We have not so served the gods, as that the enemy should have the better of us, said the Emperor Antonius, the philosopher.