Dorcas Raised to life. Peter's stay at Joppa

36. Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple For an account of Joppa, one of the great seaports on the coast of Palestine, see Dictionary of the Bible.

Dorcas is called a disciplethat it may be seen that under the gospel there is no distinction between male and female (Galatians 3:28).

named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas Tabitha is the Aramaic form of a Hebrew proper name (2 Kings 12:1) which signifies a gazelle(cp. Song of Solomon 4:5), as does the Greek word Dorcas.

this woman was full of good works, &c. A favourite form of expression with St Luke. Cp. "Stephen full of faith and power" (Acts 6:8); Elymas, "full of all subtilty" (Acts 13:10); and the Ephesians "full of wrath" (Acts 19:28). The sense is "given up to" or "devoted to."

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