Numbers 24:15 (WEB)
He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“Why was it, she inquired, that single tribes were differently associated in this passage and in that, how came it that the soothsayer Balaam in prophesying of the future mysteries of Christ spoke more plainly of Him than almost any other prophet?” — editor's note: Nu. xxiv. 15–19.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…truth, with reference to the Saviour’s becoming man, having estimated what was said as important, and assured of its truth, set it down in these words: “There shall rise a star out of Jacob, and a man out of Israel, and he shall break in pieces the captains of Moab.”” — editor's note: Num. xxiv. 5–17.
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