OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 24:3

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He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;

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Verse 3. Up. The same term only occurs again, (Lament. 3:8,) where it may have the same sense, though the Septuagint and so forth 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, verse 4. Calmet. 22:31. Calmet.

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