And he took up his oracle, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:
All Commentaries on Numbers 24:3 Go To Numbers 24
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Up. The same term only occurs again, (Lamentations iii. 8,) where it may have the same sense, though the Septuagint, give it here a quite opposite meaning, "the man whose eyes are open "the prophet. But Balaam alludes to his not being able to see the angel as soon as his ass, as he does, ver. 4., and chap. xxii. 31. (Calmet)