Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep with my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
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Jerome
AD 420
Overcome with terror, the prophet was lying on the ground face downward upon his hands and knees, but at the angel's touch he was raised up to a standing |89 position in order that he might without perturbation attend to and understand what was spoken.