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The cup of trembling - כוס התרעלה cos hattarelah, “the cup of mortal poison,” veneni mortiferi. - Montan. This may also allude to the ancient custom of taking off criminals by a cup of poison. Socrates is well known to have been sentenced by the Areopagus to drink a cup of the juice of hemlock, which occasioned his death. See the note on Heb 2:9, and see also Bishop Lowth’s note on Isa 51:21.