Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
Acts 9:33
There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed.
1. While visiting the Christians at Lydda, Peter learns of a paralyzed man.
2. He was a "shut in" for 8 years.
There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed.
1. While visiting the Christians at Lydda, Peter learns of a paralyzed man.
2. He was a "shut in" for 8 years.
Verse 33. _A CERTAIN MAN NAMED ENEAS_] This name has been celebrated in the annals of heathen poetry, in that beautiful work of the poet Virgil, called the _AEneid_; which gives an account of the mis...
ENEAS - This is a Greek name; and probably he was a Hellenist. See the notes on Acts 6:1. SICK OF THE PALSY - See the notes on Matthew 4:24....
CHAPTER 9 __ 1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1). 2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10). 3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is the Son...
Æ NEAS. His name shows him to have been probably a Hellenist. This story is modelled on that of the paralytic in Mark 2:1. Many of the words are the same; the case is similar, and only the command to...
In the course of a tour of the whole area, Peter came down to the saints who lived at Lydda. There he found a man called Aeneas who had been bed-ridden for eight years. He was paralysed. So Peter said...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
WHICH HAD KEPT HIS BED. lying on. bed (Greek. _krabbaton._ See note on Mark 2:4). EIGHT YEARS. from (Greek. _ek._ App-104.) eight years. SICK OF THE PALSY. paralyzed. See note on Acts 8:7....
_which had kept his bed eight years_ There could therefore be no doubt cast upon the miraculous nature of his cure....
ἘΞ ἘΤΩ͂Ν ὈΚΤῺ ΚΑΤΑΚΕΊΜΕΝΟΝ Κ.Τ.Λ., _which had kept his bed eight years_. There could therefore be no doubt cast upon the miraculous nature of his cure....
PETER HEALS A PARALYTIC AT LYDDA...
_THE MIRACLE AT LYDDA ACTS 9:32-35:_ While Peter was traveling from place to place preaching the gospel he came to Lydda. There he met Aeneas, a man that had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight yea...
ΕΎΡΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΎΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, ΚΑΤΑΚΕΊΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (adj.) от_ ΚΑΤΆΚΕΙΜΑΙ (G2621) лежать. ΚΡΆΒΑΤΤΟΣ (G2895) матрас, тюфяк. В папирусах это слово обозначает "по...
See notes on verse 32...
And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. AND THERE HE FOUND A CERTAIN MAN NAMED ENEAS - probably, from his Greek name, a Helleni...
30 Other details of Paul's stay in Jerusalem (not pertinent in this treatise) are interesting. Not only did the brethren lead him away, but the Lord Himself warned him to flee. While he was praying in...
ÆNĚAS] the name is different from that of the hero of Virgil's poem (¯nças)....
Activity of Peter at Lydda and Joppa. 32. Throughout all _quarters_] or, 'throughout all the saints.' LYDDA] in the plain of Sharon, about 10 m. SE. of Joppa, on the way to Jerusalem....
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Αἰνέαν : the name in this form is found in Thuc, Xen., Pindar. and is not to be identified with that of the Trojan Αἰνείας, although in a fragment of Sophocles we have for the sake of the verse Αἰνέας...
_Healing of Aeneas_....
STRENGTH AND LIFE THROUGH CHRIST Acts 9:32-43 Peter was now free for a visit of apostolic inspection, of which the two incidents here preserved are the only record. Lydda was a village on the great p...
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And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda. (33) And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight yea...
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AND THERE HE FOUND A CERTAIN MAN,.... In a house in that city, into which he entered: NAMED AENEAS; which is a Gentile name, and so might the person be; though there is mention made of this name amon...
And there he found a certain man named Æneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. Ver. 33. _Had kept his bed eight years_] A long while surely; but what was this to an eter...
_And as Peter passed through all quarters_ Where the disciples that were dispersed had planted churches; _he came to the saints that were at Lydda_ A town of Phœnicia, situated in the tribe of Ephraim...
AND THERE HE FOUND A CERTAIN MAN NAMED AENEAS, WHICH HAD KEPT HIS BED EIGHT YEARS, AND WAS SICK OF THE PALSY....
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"And it came to pass, as Peter went throughout all parts, he came down also to the saints that dwelt at Lydda"Peter" Who was last mentioned in Acts 8:25. "Went throughout all parts" The territory ment...
"And there he found. certain man named Aeneas, who had kept his bed eight years; for he was palsied"A certain man". real person. "Aeneas" (ee NEE us). "Kept his bed" "Bed-ridden for eight years with p...
32-35 Christians are saints, or holy people; not only the eminent ones, as Saint Peter and Saint Paul, but every sincere professor of the faith of Christ. Christ chose patients whose diseases were in...
It is supposed this AENEAS was a Jew, though now living at Lydda; and that St. Luke here names him by the name the Grecians called him by, he being amongst his own countrymen called Hillel. KEPT HIS B...
Acts 9:33 G1161 There G1563 found G2147 (G5627) certain G5100 man G444 named G3686 Aeneas G132 bedridden...
‘And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had kept his bed eight years, for he was paralysed.' The mention of a specific miracle in the light of the ‘many signs and wonders' performed must a...
PETER HEALS A PARALYSED MAN AND MINISTERS IN LYDDA (9:32-35). In Acts 2-3 the coming of the life of God and of the Risen Jesus to His people is followed by the ministry to ‘the lame'. Here that sequen...
Acts 9:33. A CERTAIN MAN NAMED ÆNEAS. From the name, which is Greek, Æn ě as (not to be confounded with the name of the Trojan hero Ænças), the palsied man was probably a Hellenistic Jew....
AENIAS (Αινεαν). Old Greek name and so probably a Hellenistic Jew. He was apparently a disciple already (the saint, verse Acts 9:32). Luke the physician notes that he had been bed ridden for eight y...
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PETER TRAVELED EVERYWHERE. Visiting the communities of Christians in Judea. IN LYDDA. Near Joppa. Here Peter heals a man who had been paralyzed for eight years. Note he credits the healing to Christ....
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:32. LYDDA.—The Old Testament Lod (Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:35; 1 Chronicles 8:12), now called Lucid.
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Eight years. The duration of the malady, and the fact of his having been bedridden for the whole time, are characteristic of the physician's narrative. Bed. See on Mark 2:14. Sick of the palsy. Bett...
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