Acts 9:39 (WEB)
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and other garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
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John Chrysostom
“…alms-doing effect this; for this hath raised even the dead, as when the widows stood round showing what things Dorcas had made, while she was with them. ( Acts ix. 39.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“She arrived next at Antipatris, a small town half in ruins, named by Herod after his father Antipater, and at Lydda, now become Diospolis, a place made famous by the raising again of Dorcas and the restoration to health of Æneas.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 36–41.
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Tertullian
“For they both raised the dead, which God alone (can do), and restored the debilitated to their integrity, which none but Christ (can do); nay, they inflicted plagues too, which Christ would not do.” — editor's note: Comp. Acts ix. 36–43; xx. 9–12.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For not without a purpose are the widows in the Acts of the Apostles described as weeping when Tabitha was dead, or the crowd in the Gospel, moved by the widow’s tears and accompanying the funeral of the young man who was to be raised again.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 39.
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