Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance

1. It was lunch time and the meal was not ready yet. But, Peter was hungry.

2. He fell into a trance - Strong says, of this word, "a displacement of the mind, that is, bewilderment, "ecstasy": be amazed, amazement, astonishment, trance."

3. Thayer gives a more detailed description of this word. "A throwing of the mind out of its normal state, alienation of mind, whether such as makes a lunatic or that of a man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out of himself, so that in this rapt condition, although he is awake, his mind is drawn off from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on things divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images lying within, and thinks that he perceives with his bodily eyes and ears realities shown him by God."

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