Acts 10:10

10 And he became hungry and wanted to eat. But [while] they were preparing [the food], a trance came over him.

Acts 10:10 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:10

And he became very hungry
It being in the middle of the day, when it was usual to eat; and perhaps he had ate nothing that day, for those were reckoned the most religious persons, who eat nothing before the Minchah:

and would have eaten;
though the Jews say ^F5, a man ought not to eat near the Minchah, not even the least, lest he should continue at it, and so neglect his prayers:

but while they made ready,
while Simon's family were getting dinner ready, preparing the food for it:

he fell into a trance;
or an ecstasy, or an ecstasy fell upon him; it was what was supernatural, and came from above, and did not arise from any natural cause in him; he was as it were out of the body, and entirely in the spirit; all the bodily organs and senses were shut up, and all sensible objects removed from him; and he was wholly intent on what was proposed to him in the vision, which filled him with wonder and astonishment.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Sabbat. ib.

Acts 10:10 In-Context

8 and [after he] had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

9 And the next day, [as] they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray [at] about the sixth hour.

10 And he became hungry and wanted to eat. But [while] they were preparing [the food], a trance came over him.

11 And he saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down to the earth by its four corners,

12 in which were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of the sky.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[while]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were preparing")
• [b] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation