Acts 10:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

He became very hungry; he might be more than ordinarily hungry, to fit or suit the vision, which is hereafter mentioned. He fell into a trance: the most excellent way of God's manifesting himself unto man, is by a trance; (and they reckon seven ways, in which God makes himself known unto man); but what this trance was is diversly expressed: it is certain. that in it the soul was, as it were. absent from the body, drawn off from the perception of earthly and sensible things, and enabled unto the perception of heavenly mysteries: in such an ecstasy was St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 12:2, and St. John, Revelation 1:10, who is therefore said to be in the Spirit.

Acts 10:10

10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,