Related commentaries – Separation

The prophecies of Balaam. – Numbers 23:1 – 23:30

We are not to be isolated but insulated.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it. Separation is contact without contamination. Jesus was “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners” (Heb. 7:26), yet He was “a friend of tax collectors and sinners” (Luke 7:34). (Vance Havner).