Acts 20:9

Εὔτυχος : we are not old what position he occupied, but there is no hint that he was a servant. ἐπὶ τῆς θυρ.: on the window sill there were no windows of glass, and the lattice or door was open probably on account of the heat from the lamps, and from the number present the fact that Eutychus thus sat at the window points to the crowded nature of the assembly, cf. 2 Kings 1:2, where a different word is used in LXX, although θυρίς is also frequently found. καταφερ. ὕ. β.: the two participles are to be carefully distinguished (but R.V. does not); “who was gradually oppressed,” or “becoming oppressed with sleep,” present participle; “being borne down by his sleep,” i.e., overcome by it, aorist. Rendall takes ἐπὶ πλεῖον with κατενεχθεὶς (so W.H [333] margin), “and being still more overcome with the sleep,” but the words are usually taken with διαλεγ. See Bengel, Nösgen, Alford, Holtzmann, Weiss, Ramsay, Page on the force of the participles: “sedentem somnus occupavit … somno oppressus cecidit,” Bengel. καταφέρεσθαι : used only in Luke in N.T., and in no corresponding sense in LXX; a medical term, and so much so that it was used more frequently absolutely than with ὕπνος in medical writings, and the two participles thus expressing the different stages of sleep would be quite natural in a medical writer. βαθεῖ : one of the epithets joined with ὕπνος by the medical writers, see Hobart, pp. 48, 49, and his remarks on Luke 22:45, p. 84. The verb is also used in the same sense by other writers as by Aristotle, Josephus, see instances in Wetstein, but Zahn reckons the whole phrase as medical, Einleitung, ii., p. 436. καὶ ἤρθη νεκρός : the words positively assert that Eutychus was dead they are not ὡσεὶ νεκρός, cf. Mark 9:26, and the attempt to show that the words in Acts 20:10, “his life is in him,” indicate apparent death, or that life is still thought of as not having left him (so apparently even Zöckler, whilst he strongly maintains the force of the preceding words), cannot be called satisfactory; see on the other hand Ramsay, St. Paul, pp. 290, 291, and Wendt, in loco.

[333] Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in Greek: Critical Text and Notes.