The text discusses the concept that dullness causes excessive sleep, not the other way around, and relates sleep to death, describing it as the sister of death. Additionally, it uses metaphorical language to convey how certain animals, like the donkey, symbolize a lack of depth or understanding, while mentioning a biblical reference to justify their traits. The Greek term 'Koimeterion' is explained as meaning a sleeping chamber, related to where the deceased were buried.
Dizziness of the Countenance.
The state is not lightly spoken of; because much sleep is not the cause of dullness, but rather dullness is the cause of much sleep or sluggishness. We sleep only due to lack of spirits; namely when there is such an absence of abundance necessary to keep all the senses lively and the muscles full. Not when they are completely absent; for then one falls into eternal sleep, which means one dies. Therefore, it is not without reason that sleep is called the sister of death; and even death itself was called a sleep, especially when viewed with a prospect of resurrection, as spoken of: See Matthew 9, verse 24. And in many places of the New Covenant. The first Christians in the Greek Church, therefore, named death vaults and the places where the deceased were buried 'Coemeterium', or rather 'Koimeterion', meaning a sleeping chamber.
And although the donkey is the common measuring stick with which all foolishness is measured, those who pay heed to its dizziness will discover that there's an understanding repressed, or dulled from too much work exertion: Such that with its dizziness, one might imagine people having an old, burnt, and molded appearance as if they were wise, yet their understanding is somewhat shallow in depth. Nevertheless, the donkey remains celebrated among all four-legged animals because it has spoken to justify itself against its undeserved beatings from its master Balaam. While the serpent that spoke with Eve, possibly never belonged to the number of the four-legged animals, and