And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
And there sat in a window, х epi (G1909) tees (G3588) thuridos (G2376)] - rather, 'the window;' that is, the window-seat or recess (cf. 2 Corinthians 11:33) --
A certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft (or 'storey'). The window projected (according to the side of the room where it was situated) either over the street or over the interior court; so that in either case he fell on the hard earth or pavement below.
And was taken up dead. That DeWette should take this to mean, 'taken up for dead,' or 'apparently dead,' and appeal to the words of Acts 20:10, "Trouble not yourselves, for his life is in him" - as if that meant, 'his life is still in him,' or 'he is but apparently dead'-need surprise no one; but that Olshausen should so understand the words, is indeed surprising. The whole narrative, read in its natural sense, conveys the impression that the youth was taken up literally "dead."