Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 22:28

28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass , and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

(i. e.) Conferred upon her the power of speech and reasoning for that time. Impudent are those Heathens that disbelieve and scoffe at the Scripture for this and some such relations contained in it, when there are examples of the same kind of prodigies, to wit, of Oxen and other brute-creatures speaking some few words, in the greatest and most approved writers of the Roman History, as Plutarch, Polybius, Livy, and others. See the particulars in my Latin Synopsis on this place.