Acts 9:40 (WEB)
Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Fathers and councils · 7
Augustine of Hippo
“Peter a fisherman approached, prayed, and the dead arose.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 40.
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John Chrysostom
“For not only if I should say, “Arise, and walk;”neither if I should say, “Tabitha, arise,”then only do I speak Christ’s words, but much more if being reviled I bless, if being despitefully used I pray for him that doeth despite to me.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 40.
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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
“Peter in the name of Christ bade Tabitha rise and walk,and the poor rejoicing believed for the food’s sake which she ministered to them, and shall we not believe for our salvation’s sake?” — editor's note: Acts ix. 40.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“When, therefore, falling on his knees, he had prayed, and—fit advocate for the widows and poor—had brought to the Lord the prayers entrusted to him, turning to the body, which was now lying washed on the bier, he said, “Tabitha, in the name of Jesus Christ, arise!”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 40.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Titus of BostraCatena Aurea on Luke
“…the son of the widow of Sarepta, (1 Kings 17) nor as Elisha who laid his own body upon the body of the dead, (2 Kings 4) nor as Peter who prayed for Tabitha, (Acts 9:40) but is none other than He who calls those things which be not, as though they were, who can speak to the dead as to the living, (Rom. 4:17) as it…” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Titus of Bostra on Luke 7:11–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Titus of Bostra on Luke 7:11–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Titus of Bostra on Luke 7:11–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Titus of Bostra on Luke 7:11–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Titus of Bostra on Luke 7:11–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Titus of Bostra on Luke 7:11–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Titus of Bostra on Luke 7:11–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Titus of Bostra on Luke 7:11–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).