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Numbers 24:4

The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 24:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Falling into a trance. Rather, "falling down." Qui cadit, Vulgate. The case of Saul, who "fell down naked all that day" (), overcome by the illapse of the Spirit, affords the best comparison.

Physically, it would seem to have been a kind of catalepsy, in which the senses were closed to outward things, and the eyes open but unseeing. The word for "open" in this verse is the ordinary one, not that used in .

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