ἔκστασις,
-εως,
ἡ, (
ἐξίστημι);
1. universally, in Greek writing,
any casting down of a thing from its proper place or
state; displacement (Aristotle, Plutarch).
2. a throwing of the mind out of its normal state, alienation of mind, whether such as makes a lunatic (
διανοίας,
Deuteronomy 28:28;
τῶν λογισμῶν, Plutarch, Sol. 8), or that of the man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out of himself, so that in this rapt condition, although he is awake, his mind is so drawn off from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on things divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images lying within, and thinks that he perceives with his bodily eyes and ears realities shown him by God, (Philo,
quis rerum divin. heres § 53 [cf. 51;
B. D. under the word Trance;
Delitzsch, Psychol. 5:5]):
ἐπέπεσεν [
Rec., others
ἐγένετο]
ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἔκστασις,
Acts 10:10;
εἶδεν ἐν ἐκστάσει ὅραμα,
Acts 11:5;
γενέσθαι ἐν ἐκστάσει,
Acts 22:17, cf.
2 Corinthians 12:2f.
3. In the
O. T. and the New
amazement [cf. Longinus, 1, 4; Stobaeus, flor. tit.
104, 7], the state of one who, either owing to the importance or the novelty of an event, is thrown into a state of blended fear and wonder:
εἶχεν αὐτὸς τρόμος καὶ ἔκστασις,
Mark 16:8;
ἐξέστησαν ἐκστάσει μεγάλη,
Mark 5:42 (
Ezekiel 26:16);
ἔκστασις ἔλαβεν ἅπαντας,
Luke 5:26;
ἐπλήσθησαν θάμβους κ.
ἐκστάσεως,
Acts 3:10; (for
חֲרָדָה, trembling,
Genesis 27:33;
1 Samuel 14:15, etc.;
פַּחַד, fear,
2 Chronicles 14:14, etc.).
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