[181] among whom we must enroll Balaam, for he also is a child of the earth, and not a shoot of heaven, and a proof of this is, that he, being influenced by omens and false prophecies, not even when the eye of his soul, which had been closed, recovered its sight, and "saw the angel of God standing against him in the way;" [89] not even then did he turn back and desist from doing [90] wrong, but giving way to a mighty torrent of folly, he was washed away and swallowed up by it.