ON “BEING BESIDE ONESELF”
Having lost one’s grasp on the real world, particularly through wrath. Festus hears Paul’s defense of his confidence in Christ and finishes up he is distraught. Paul reacts ‘I am not distraught, however, talk forward the expressions of truth and soberness’. “And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.” Acts 26:24 KJV