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Weak and sickly
Physical visitations on account of profanation of the Lord's table.
Many sleep (κοιμῶνται ἱκανοί)
The word for many means, primarily, adequate, sufficient. See on Rom 15:23. Rev., not a few hardly expresses the ominous shading of the word: quite enough have died. Sleep. Better, are sleeping. Here simply as a synonym for are dead, without the peculiar restful sense which christian sentiment so commonly conveys into it. See on Act 7:60; see on 2Pe 3:4.