9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.



Ver. 9. And he was three days] In this three days’ darkness, some gather by computation of time, that he was now rapped up into the third heaven, and heard those wordless words, ñçìáôá áññçôá , 2Co_12:4, after that he had been thoroughly humbled. Luther likewise lay (after his conversion) three days in desperation, as Mr Perkins remembereth in his book of Spiritual Desertion, his temptations were so violent, ut nec calor, nec sanguis, nec sensus, nec vox superesset, as Justus Jonas reporteth of Luther, that was by and saw it. (Epist. ad Melancthon.) The like is recorded concerning Mr Bolton, by Mr Bagshaw in his Life.