vision] Revelations by visions are properly such as are when their eyes are open or awake, and revelations by dreames, when their eyes are shut or asleepe; and yet those dreames may be called visions of the soule when the eyes of the body are closed. eyes open] Heb. who had his eyes shut, but now open. This may be meant literally of the eyes of his body, according to the former Note; or figuratively of the eyes of his minde, which, (though before this they were shut, seeing nothing at all of such future events) might be awake, albeit he was in a trance, as one asleepe, Genesis 15:12. Daniel 8:17-18, &c.