Talitha cumi = " Little Maid, arise. " Doubtless St Peter, who was now present, often recalled the actual words used on this memorable occasion by our Lord, and told them to his friend and kinsman St Mark. So it is the same Evangelist, who preserves the very word, which our Lord used, when He opened the ears of the deaf man, Ephphatha(Mark 7:34). The mention of these words goes to prove that in ordinary life our Lord availed Himself of the popular Aramaic dialect.

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