“And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:”
He uttered his oracle, saying: 'The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened' — Balaam's third oracle is introduced with his name and a title: 'the man whose eye is opened' (sheloach enayim niglot). The epithet suggests that Balaam has received supernatural sight, that his eyes perceive what ordinary vision cannot. The opened eye is the result of the donkey incident and his three-fold instruction: Balaam now sees truly.
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