Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)
Acts 9:39
Acts 9:39. The coats and garments. ‘Coats,' better translated ‘tunics,' the inner clothing, the word rendered ‘garments' signifying the outer mantle worn above the tunic.
Acts 9:39. The coats and garments. ‘Coats,' better translated ‘tunics,' the inner clothing, the word rendered ‘garments' signifying the outer mantle worn above the tunic.
Verse 39. _SHOWING THE COATS AND GARMENTS_] χιτωνας και ιματια, the _outer_ and _inner_ garments. These, it appears, she had made for the poor, and more particularly for _poor widows_, in whose behalf...
THEN PETER AROSE - See the notes on Luke 15:18. AND ALL THE WIDOWS - Whom Dorcas had benefited by her kindness. They had lost a benefactress; and it was natural that they should recall her kindness, a...
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...
DORCAS. This story is like that of the raising of Jairus-' daughter (Mark 5:22; Mark 5:35; Luke 8:41 f., Luke 8:49). Tabitha (in Gr. _Dorcas,_ Eng. Gazelle;
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)...
COATS. Greek. _chiton._. tunic or under-garment....
_Then_[AND] _Peter arose and went with them_ We may be sure that the Apostle knew, by the Spirit, that it would please God to do something for the help of the distress at Joppa, when he set out with t...
DORCAS RAISED TO LIFE. PETER’S STAY AT JOPPA...
ἈΝΑΣΤᾺΣ ΔῈ ΠΈΤΡΟΣ, _and Peter arose_. We may he sure that the Apostle knew, by the Spirit, that it would please God to do something for the help of the distress at Joppa when he set out with the messe...
_THE RAISING OF DORCAS ACTS 9:36-42:_ In Joppa there was a Christian lady named Tabitha. Her Greek name was Dorcas. As a follower of Christ she was helpful and compassionate. Dorcas lived, like all pe...
ΆΝΑΣΤΆΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.)_, _см._ Acts 9:6. ΣΥΝΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4905) сопутствовать, сопровождать. ΠΑΡΑΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΝ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.), см._ Acts 9:26. ΆΝ...
DISCOURSE: 1764 DORCAS RESTORED TO LIFE Acts 9:39. Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing...
SHEWING THE COATS AND GARMENTS; &C.— "Shewing some of the under and upper garments, which she, with her own hands, had made, to clothe the naked and relieve the poor." The Vulgate reads, which she had...
AT JOPPA. Acts 9:36-43. Acts 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. A...
See notes on verse 36...
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while sh...
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...
SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN 1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
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....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9 V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples. He said that he would kill them. He...
ALL THE WIDOWS STOOD BY HIM WEEPING. — We have apparently the same organisation of charity as that which prevailed in the Church at Jerusalem. The “widows” of the Church were the object of a special p...
It is not said that they sent for St. Peter to work a miracle, but his near presence at Lydda would naturally make them turn to him in a time of sorrow. παραγενόμενον : a characteristic Lucan expressi...
_Tabitha raised from the dead_....
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...
Opposition, the leader of which seems to have been Saul, continued. Armed with letters from the high priest, he attempted to put an end to the Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
The Growth of the Church and Two of Peter's Miracles After Saul went to Tarsus, Luke reported that a period of peace ensued during which the church in Judea, Galilee and Samaria was strengthened, walk...
_Greek: Chiton was the under garment, Greek: Imation the upper._...
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did. (37) And it came to pass in those day...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
39._And Peter arose. _It is doubtful whether the messengers declared to Peter the (matter and) cause why they fet [sent for] him; yet it is more like to be true, that they requested him absolutely tha...
A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the scene. We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repelli...
THEN PETER AROSE AND WENT WITH THEM,.... After the messengers had delivered their message, and made their request to Peter in the name of the brethren, he at once agreed to go with them, and according...
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she...
_Then Peter arose and went with them_ Doubtless God inclined him so to do, intending to work an extraordinary miracle by him, for the manifestation of his truth and glory. _And when he was come_ To Ta...
Persons who are very benevolent and useful in life, will be affectionately remembered, and greatly lamented in death; and all their works performed from love to God and to men, will meet a gracious an...
THEN PETER AROSE AND WENT WITH THEM. WHEN HE WAS COME, THEY BROUGHT HIM INTO THE UPPER CHAMBER; AND ALL THE WIDOWS STOOD BY HIM WEEPING, AND SHOWING THE COATS AND GARMENTS WHICH DORCAS MADE WHILE SHE...
The miracle at Joppa:...
Philip the evangelist is now put in the background, as the Spirit of God begins a work of another kind, using a most unexpected workman. Saul was filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
THEN PETER AROSE AND WENT WITH THEM. WHEN HE HAD COME, THEY BROUGHT _HIM_ TO THE UPPER ROOM. AND ALL THE WIDOWS STOOD BY HIM WEEPING, SHOWING THE TUNICS AND GARMENTS WHICH DORCAS HAD MADE WHILE SHE WA...
"And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while...
36-43 Many are full of good words, who are empty and barren in good works; but Tabitha was a great doer, no great talker. Christians who have not property to give in charity, may yet be able to do ac...
It was strange that Peter should be sent for, or that he should go on such an account, viz. to raise one that was dead; but God, who had ordered this miracle for the manifestation of his truth and glo...
Acts 9:39 Then G1161 Peter G4074 arose G450 (G5631) with G4905 (G5627) them G846 he G3739 come...
‘And Peter arose and went with them. And when he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while...
PETER RAISES THE DEAD AND MINISTERS IN JOPPA (9:36-43). But the new ministry offered not only healing but life. In the bringing of the Good News the life of God has been made available for the people...
STOOD BY HIM (παρεστησαν αυτω). Second aorist active indicative, intransitive, of παριστημ). Vivid picture of this group of widows as they stood around Peter, weeping (κλαιουσα) and showing (επιδεικ...
WIDOWS Contra, (Acts 6:1)....
CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised from the dead. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
Acts 9:1. _Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord._ Not less than two thousand of them, who fell in this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
THEY SENT TWO MEN TO HIM. His fame suggests he may restore her to life. ALL THE WIDOWS CROWDED AROUND HIM. It was a bitter experience to be a widow in the first century, and it was very often necessar...
_Now there was at Joppa._ JOPPA OR YAFA MEANS BEAUTY The modern name is Jaffa or Yafa. It is a seaport town of Palestine, about forty miles northwest of Jerusalem, of which city it was the port in th...
_And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda._ LYDDA The Lud of the Old Testament (1 Chronicles 8:12; Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37;...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:36. JOPPA, or _Japho_ (Jonah 1:3), in Assyrian inscriptions Ja-ap-pu; at the present day, Jaffa or Jâfa, meaning “the beautiful,” or, according to another derivation, “the he...
EXPOSITION ACTS 9:1 _But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.; _threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
1 John 3:18; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 8:12;...
Coats and garments. See on Matthew 5:40. Which [ο σ α]. Lit., as many as. Made [ε π ο ι ε ι]. The imperfect : was accustomed to make....
SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY 1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road is as vital a pa...
While she was with the in — That is, before she died....