Exupnos means 'out of sleep' — thoroughly awake. It appears in Acts 20:9 after Eutychus fell from the third-floor window during Paul's long sermon: 'and he was taken up dead.' Paul embraced him and said, 'Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.' Luke then notes that the young man was 'taken up alive' (zonta). But the prior note — that Eutychus was 'overcome by sleep' (kataperomenon hupno) — gives exupnos its context as the state of being fully roused.
The Eutychus episode is more than a cautionary tale about long sermons. It is a resurrection narrative embedded in Acts — the third such miracle (after the widow's son in Luke 7 and Lazarus in John 11). Paul's act of embracing the dead boy echoes Elijah (1 Kings 17) and Elisha (2 Kings 4). Life is restored; the congregation is comforted; the Lord's Supper is celebrated. The one who fell asleep and fell from height is raised and restored to the community of faith. The final exupnos will be universal when the trumpet sounds.