Acts 10:6

A tanner. Showing that the strictness of the Jewish law was losing its hold on Peter; since the tanner's occupation was regarded as unclean by strict Jews, and the tanners were commanded to dwell apart. "If a tanner married without mentioning his trade, his wife was permitted to get a divorce. The law of levirate marriage might be set aside if the brother - in - law of the childless widow was a tanner. A tanner's yard must be at least fifty cubits from any town" (Farrar, " Life and Work of St. Paul ").

By the seaside. Outside the walls, both for proximity to the business, and because of the ceremonial requirement referred to above. Mr. William 100 Prime, describing a visit to Joppa, says : "I was walking along the sea - beach, looking for shells, and at about a fourth of a mile from the city, to the southward, I found two tanneries directly on the seaside. I observed that the rocks in front of them were covered with the water a few inches deep, and that they soaked their hides on these rocks and also submitted them to some process in the water which I did not stop to understand" (" Tent - life in the Holy Land ").

Of them that waited on him continually [π ρ ο σ κ α ρ τ ε ρ ο υ ν τ ω ν α υ τ ω]. See on ch. Acts 1:14.