Fainting

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• General scriptures concerningLamentations 2:12Daniel 8:27

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1. Lamentations 2:12

   They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

   ›Commentary on Lamentations 2:122 voices

   “The order of death is here exposed, as it excites mercy. First is a prayer to mothers as said: "They cry to their mothers, 'Where is bread and wine?'". As if wine is lacking, so give to us bread. For Lamentations 4:4 claims: "the children …

   “When their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom - When, in endeavoring to draw nourishment from the breasts of their exhausted mothers, they breathed their last in their bosoms! How dreadfully afflicting was this!

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2. Daniel 8:27

   I, Daniel, was exhausted and lay ill for days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was confounded by the vision; it was beyond understanding.

   ›Commentary on Daniel 8:272 voices

   “And I Daniel fainted - Hebrew, “I was “ - נהייתי nı̂heyēythı̂y. Compare Dan 2:1. The meaning, according to Gesenius (“Lexicon”), is, “I was done up, and was sick:” - I was done over, etc. Perhaps the “reason” of his using this verb here is, that he represents himself as “having been sick,” and then as fainting away, as if his life had departed. The Latin Vulgate renders it langui. Theodotion, ἐκοιμήθην ekoimēthēn - “ was laid in my bed.” The general idea is plain, that he was overcome and prostrate at the effect of the vision.

   “I . . . was sick--through grief at the calamities coming on my people and the Church of God (compare Ps 102:14). afterward I . . . did the king's business--He who holds nearest communion with heaven can best discharge the duties of common life. none understood it--He had heard of kings, but knew not their names;

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