ἔκστασις: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἐκστάσεως, ἡ ([[ἐξίστημι]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[universally]], in Greek [[writing]], [[any]] casting down of a [[thing]] from its [[proper]] [[place]] or [[state]]; [[displacement]] ([[Aristotle]], [[Plutarch]]).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a throwing of the [[mind]] [[out]] of its [[normal]] [[state]], [[alienation]] of [[mind]], [[whether]] [[such]] as makes a [[lunatic]] (διανοίας, τῶν λογισμῶν, [[Plutarch]], Song of Solomon 8), or [[that]] of the [[man]] [[who]] by [[some]] [[sudden]] [[emotion]] is transported as it were [[out]] of [[himself]], so [[that]] in [[this]] rapt [[condition]], [[although]] he is [[awake]], his [[mind]] is so [[drawn]] [[off]] from [[all]] [[surrounding]] objects and [[wholly]] [[fixed]] on things [[divine]] [[that]] he sees [[nothing]] [[but]] the forms and images [[lying]] [[within]], and thinks [[that]] he perceives [[with]] his [[bodily]] eyes and ears realities shown him by God ([[Philo]], quis rerum divin. heres § 53 (cf. 51; B. D. [[under]] the [[word]], Trance; Delitzsch, Psychol. 5:5)): ἐπέπεσεν (, others ἐγένετο) ἐπ' [[ἔκστασις]], εἶδεν ἐν ἐκστάσει [[ὅραμα]], [[γενέσθαι]] ἐν ἐκστάσει, [[amazement]] (cf. Longinus, 1,4; Stobaeus, flor. [[Titus]] 104,7), the [[state]] of [[one]] [[who]], [[either]] owing to the [[importance]] or the [[novelty]] of an [[event]], is thrown [[into]] a [[state]] of [[blended]] [[fear]] and [[wonder]]: εἶχεν αὐτάς [[τρόμος]] καί [[ἔκστασις]], ἐξέστησαν ἐκστάσει [[μεγάλη]], [[ἔκστασις]] ἔλαβεν ἅπαντας, ἐπλήσθησαν θάμβους καί ἐκστάσεως, חֲרָדָה, [[trembling]], פַּחַד, [[fear]], 2 Chronicles 14:14, etc.).