3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.



Ver. 3. They will faint] åêëõèçóïíôáé , "their sinews will be loosened," as it useth to fare with men in fainting fits. Physicians sometimes let blood usque ad deliquium animae; so doth God, as he did David often. {See Trapp on "Mat_15:32"}