ἀποψυχόντων�. Literally, “men swooning.” Meyer renders it “giving up the ghost.”

καὶ προσδοκίας. “And expectation;” only here and in Acts 12:11.

τῇ οἰκουμένῃ. Literally, “on the habitable world.”

αἱ γὰρ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν, i.e. the “bright dynasts” (Aesch. Ag. 6)—the Hosts of the Heavens.

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