The vision of the Almighty So called properly, because he was awake when the following things were revealed to him. Falling into a trance In the Hebrew it is only falling, namely, fainting and falling to the ground, as the prophets sometimes used to do. Our translators supply the words, into a trance, supposing him to have been in an ecstasy or rapture when he had the vision, as it is probable he was; because it follows, having his eyes open Which implies, that when all his outward senses were locked up, his mind had a clear apprehension of the things which God revealed to him.
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Numbers 24:4
4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: