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The sun’s light failing (tou hēliou ekleipontos). Genitive absolute of the present active participle of ekleipō, an old verb, to leave out, omit, pass by, to fail, to die. The word was used also of the eclipse of the sun or moon. But this was impossible at this time because the moon was full at the passover. Hence many documents change this correct text to “the sun was darkened” (eskotisthē ho hēlios) to obviate the difficulty about the technical eclipse. But the sun can be darkened in other ways. In a London fog at noon the street lights are often turned on. The Revised Version translates it correctly, “the sun’s light failing.” Leave the darkness unexplained.
In the midst (meson). In the middle. Mar 15:38; Mat 27:51 have “in two” (eis duo).