soothsayer

was an honourable title: Balaam, a true prophet, was called one, so the Gentiles' augurs were true prophets, and only the false ones deceived them as false prophets deceived the Jews.

Recast in definition form from: “As then he was a true prophet, and nevertheless Joshua calls him a soothsayer or augur, it is certain that this title had an honourable signification, and that those whom the Gentiles called augurs and soothsayers were true prophets, while those whom Scripture often accuses and condemns were false soothsayers, who deceived the Gentiles as false prophets deceived the Jews”

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soothsayer