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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 9:36 - 9:36
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at Joppa - the modern Jaffa, on the Mediterranean, a very ancient city of the Philistines, afterwards and still the seaport of Jerusalem, from which it lies distant forty-five miles to the northwest.
Tabitha ... Dorcas - the Syro-Chaldaic and Greek names for an antelope or gazelle, which, from its loveliness, was frequently employed as a proper name for women [Meyer, Olshausen]. Doubtless the interpretation, as here given, is but an echo of the remarks made by the Christians regarding her - how well her character answered to her name.
full of good works and alms-deeds - eminent for the activities and generosities of the Christian character.