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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Madmen (2)
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("madness".) The Easterners regard madmen with a superstitious reverence, as idolatrous worshippers seemed, and true worshippers were really, rapt out of themselves by divine inspiration (; ; -24). Hence arose the contemptuous sneer as to Jesus (), "He hath a devil and is mad"; also the designation "mad fellow" applied to the prophet who anointed Jehu (), and to Jeremiah (), and to Paul (-25). David availed himself of this half reverential, half-contemptuous forbearance toward madmen, to save himself at Achish's court by feigning madness (-15).