ACTS 10:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,”
He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance.—Peter's hunger (prospeinas, 'became hungry') establishes his embodied humanity; he is no disembodied spirit but a man with physical needs. The transition from hunger to trance suggests that bodily need opens him to spiritual vision; the physical becomes the gateway to the spiritual. The 'falling into a trance' (ekstasis, ecstasy) indicates a state of consciousness transcendent to normal waking.
Church Fathers on Acts 10:10
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, there fell upon him a trance. Acts 10:10 What means this expression, ἔ κστασις, trance? Rather, there was presented to him a kind of spiritual view (θεωρία): the soul, so to say, was caused to be out of the body (ἐ ξέστη).
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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