nothing. Thus the prophet says that he was completely reduced to nothing, or reduced to silence, of which let nothing more be said. For דָּמָה means “he was silent,” and דְּמָמָה means “silence,” as in Ps. 94:17: “Almost it would have lived in hell.” In Hebrew: “My soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.” Poets say that ghosts are silent, since there is no memory of them.3 Therefore this glory is revealed against the stiff necks and against Satan in men’s hearts; as if the prophet were