Acts Chapter 10 verse 10 Holy Bible
and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance;
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And he was in need of food: but while they were getting it ready, a deep sleep came on him;
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And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:
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And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
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He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.
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and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Hungry for very hungry, A.V.; desired to eat for would have eaten, A.V. Hungry. The word so rendered (πρόσπεινος) occurs nowhere else either in the New Testament or in any other writer. Possibly he, like Cornelius (ver. 30), had been fasting till the time of prayer. A trance (ἔκστασις) expresses a state of transition from the ordinary state into a new or different state. Applied to a man, it denotes that state in which the external senses and the volition are suspended, and all his impressions are derived from within (see Acts 11:5; Acts 22:17). It is also used to express great astonishment (Luke 5:26; Acts 3:10; Mark 5:42). In the LXX. of Genesis 2:21 it is spoken of Adam's deep sleep, and in Genesis 27:33 of Isaac's exceeding trembling, and elsewhere of strong emotions.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) He fell into a trance.--St. Luke characteristically uses, as in Acts 11:5; Acts 22:17, the technical term ekstasis (whence our English ecstasy) for the state which thus supervened. It is obvious that it might in part be the natural consequence of the protracted fast, and the intense prayer, possibly also of exposure under such conditions to the noontide sun. The state was one in which the normal action of the senses was suspended, like that of Balaam in Numbers 24:4, or that which St. Paul describes in 2Corinthians 12:3, "whether in the body or out of the body" he cannot tell, and, as such, it was, in this instance, made the channel for a revelation of the Divine Will conveyed in symbols which were adapted to the conditions out of which it rose.