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Fausets

("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 (1Ki 18:26,28; 1Sa 19:21-24). Hence arose the contemptuous sneer as to Jesus (Joh 10:20), "He hath a devil and is mad"; also the designation "mad fellow" applied to the prophet who anointed Jehu (2Ki 9:11), and to Jeremiah (Jer 29:26), and to Paul (Ac 26:24-25). David availed himself of this half reverential, half-contemptuous forbearance toward madmen, to save himself at Achish's court by feigning madness (1Sa 21:13-15).

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