And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Ver. 3. They will faint] εκλυθησονται, "their sinews will be loosened," as it useth to fare with men in fainting fits. Physicians sometimes let blood usque ad deliquium animae; so doth God, as he did David often. See Trapp on " Mat 15:32 "